Hi, I'm having problems getting gsfonts-x11 installed (using unstable/sid -quite by accident, thought I was getting woody :).
It seems that whatever I do the problem just will not go away. Below are some of the things I have tried, and the errors I get. The 15 packages that are not upgraded on my system seem to be held back by gsfonts-x11. thanks for any help. Andreas # dpkg -C The following packages are in a mess due to serious problems during installation. They must be reinstalled for them (and any packages that depend on them) to function properly: gsfonts-x11 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11. # apt-get install -f gsfonts-x11 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, gsfonts-x11 is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/6990B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Selecting previously deselected package gsfonts-x11. (Reading database ... 68379 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gsfonts-x11 0.12 (using .../gsfonts-x11_0.12_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gsfonts-x11 ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/gsfonts-x11.postrm: /usr/sbin/update-fonts-scale: No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: /usr/sbin/update-fonts-scale: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gsfonts-x11_0.12_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: /usr/sbin/update-fonts-scale: No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gsfonts-x11_0.12_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) # dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq gsfonts-x11 dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. (Reading database ... 68379 files and directories currently installed.) Removing gsfonts-x11 ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/gsfonts-x11.postrm: /usr/sbin/update-fonts-scale: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing gsfonts-x11 (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: gsfonts-x11
