On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 03:36:01PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.0425 +0100]: > > Now I have one (trafstats) that is stuck in limbo. dselect shows it sa stae > > "C", and it makes the install step fail. I tried doing a dpkg -r trafstats, > > but that also fails. > > > > How can I remove this failed package? > > apt-get -f install
... only tries to correct broken dependencies, so isn't any use when dpkg is failing. After a discussion with Stan, it looks like removing the line referring to the non-existent trafstats/nodaemon debconf template from /var/lib/dpkg/info/trafstats.config may do the job, pending a proper fix. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
