OK, I fixed it. I manually downloaded an earlier, more robust version of esound-common from ftp.debian.org and did a "dpkg -i". After that I ran "apt-get -f install" and now it's whistling clean:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -i esound-common_0.2.35-2_all.deb dpkg - warning: downgrading esound-common from 0.2.35-2.1 to 0.2.35-2. (Reading database ... 358586 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace esound-common 0.2.35-2.1 (using esound-common_0.2.35-2_all.deb) ... error: empty control file at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 621. dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 21 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK. Unpacking replacement esound-common ... Setting up esound-common (0.2.35-2) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: esound-common The following packages will be REMOVED: libwine libwine-print libwine-twain wine wine-utils winetools The following packages will be upgraded: esound-common 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 1892 not upgraded. 8 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/38.2kB of archives. After unpacking 11.2MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 358586 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace esound-common 0.2.35-2 (using .../esound-common_0.2.36-3_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement esound-common ... (Reading database ... 358542 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libwine-twain ... Removing wine-utils ... Removing winetools ... Removing libwine-print ... Removing wine ... Removing libwine ... Setting up esound-common (0.2.36-3) ... Setting up libesd0 (0.2.36-3) ... Setting up esound (0.2.36-3) ... Setting up libgnome2-0 (2.10.1-1) ... Setting up gnome-about (2.10.2-1) ... Setting up libgnome-desktop-2 (2.10.2-1) ... Setting up libpanel-applet2-0 (2.10.2-1) ... Setting up gnome-panel (2.10.2-1) ... Setting up libesd0-dev (0.2.36-3) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# I'm not under the impression that anyone is listening; this is kind of for my own notes at this point, but if you are listening, honk if you love the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Ron Hale-Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
