thx Oliver! your suggestion worked perfectly :-)))
yours, Richard On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 13:08, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 11:53, Richard Palfalvi wrote: > > > During the installation-process with dselect it run into the following > > error: > > > > Removing gnome-games /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-games.postrm: > > scrollkeeper-update: command not found > > dpkg: error processing gnome-games (--remove): subprocess post-removal > > script returned error exit status 127 > ... > > So,the thing is that I cannot continue/finish the installation process > > because any retry runs in the same error-message. > ... > > Is it a good idea to just erase all files in the /var/cache directories > > and restart the whole installation process from scratch or is there some > > nicer way to fix the problem? > > No. Your problem is with this particular package. > > Look at the script /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-games.postrm > > The error message says it is trying to run a command that is not present > on your machine, so you need to make the script bypass the error. > > The easiest way is to delete the line containing the dud command > (scrollkeeper-update), and any lines dependent on it. Then run > dpkg --purge gnome-games > If any other errors show up, repeat the procedure until they all go away > and the package is successfully purged. > > -- > Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver > GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C > > "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their > strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; > they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk, > and not faint." Isaiah 40:31 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
