Hello everyone, I'm running potato with a smattering of woody packages. I recently tried to install the game "powermanga" from unstable using apt-get. It failed to install, here is the output (sorry, it's long):
debian:/home/dave# apt-get install powermanga Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: powermanga-data The following NEW packages will be installed: powermanga-data 1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 584 not upgraded. 9 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/6554kB of archives. After unpacking 17.3MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Selecting previously deselected package powermanga-data. (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `powermanga' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 86921 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking powermanga-data (from .../powermanga-data_0.71c-6_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package powermanga. Preparing to replace powermanga 0.71c-6 (using .../powermanga_0.71c-6_i386.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: dpkg-statoverride: command not found /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: dpkg-statoverride: command not found dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/powermanga_0.71c-6_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127 /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: dpkg-statoverride: command not found /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: dpkg-statoverride: command not found dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/powermanga_0.71c-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) OK, trying to remove it produces the following: debian:/home/dave# apt-get remove powermanga Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: powermanga powermanga-data 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 584 not upgraded. 10 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 16.9MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `powermanga' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 87310 files and directories currently installed.) Removing powermanga-data ... dpkg: error processing powermanga (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: powermanga E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The problem is that if I try to install *any* other program using apt-get it first tries to install powermanga and ends in failure (as above) and so will not allow me to install any other programs. This is a real problem. So my question is how do I tell apt-get to completely forget about powermanga so that I can get back to installing other packages? Thanks, David Bellows
