On Monday 13 November 2006 17:53, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Tom Brown wrote: > > On Monday 13 November 2006 09:40, Tom Brown wrote: > > > I installed some mysql 5 packages on my development server. I had to do > > > a --force-all to get them to install. I've tried three different ways > > > to remove the package but all fail (shown below). Any ideas on how to > > > remove the package? > > > > Hmmm... I went on #debian with this problem without any promise of fixing > > the problem. I did --force-all when installing the .debs for mysql > > 5.0.26. I learned that this was a bad idea. I get the impression that the > > package db is fubar. Everything I try fails. This is a develpment server > > so no real damage done. I am looking at reinstalling debian and starting > > over. So, does anybody have any suggestions before I reinstall? > > > > Thanks, > > Hi Tom, > one of the errors in the initscripts was complaining about > /lib/lsb/init-script. This is in the 'lsb-base' packages. I'd install it > so that when you try to re-install mysql 5, it does not fails, at least > with that error. So: install 'lsb-base', then 'mysql', then if that > works, try to remove 'mysql'. > Cheers, > Kev
Hi Kev, Thanks for your reply. I think the packages db is really fubar. This is what I get when I try to install lsb-base: $ sudo apt-get install lsb-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: The package mysql-server-5.0 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. Does this mean there's no hope for my poor dev server? A fresh install wouldn't kill me. Although, if there is way out of this I'd like to know in case I run into this in the future on one of my production servers. Thanks, Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
