on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:34:37AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've tried to install kde2 via dpkg from a CD found in a linux > magazine, but something went wrong (many dependency problems)and all > the packages were unconfigured. So I've deinstalled everything with > "dpkg -purge *.deb".
What's that glob expand to?
> Using dselect I now find that one of the package I wanted to eliminate
> (slapd) is still there as "I**", that is "half installed" - "remove" -
> "remove" and prevents dselect to work. In fact, when I try to install
> something else via dselect, it stops with a 100 exitus on slapd
> package and don't go ahead anymore.
>
> How can I fix this problem?
Fix your line wrap. 72 characters please.
I'd recommend apt-get and dpkg over dselect here.
Try:
$ apt-get install --fix-missing
...which may resolve some errors. Then remove the ones you want to get
rid of.
If that doesn't work, try uninstalling specific packages and note which
fail. I'd look at the specific install/uninstall scripts and note which
fail and where. I had a recent package hanging due to a failure code on
an /etc/init.d/<script> stop message. So I commented it out (the daemon
wasn't running) and got through the bump.
You can also manually remove files associated with a package, then edit
your status file, but I'd consider this to be major surgery and try
all other options several times first.
--
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