On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 07:04:08AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Charlie Kravetz <char...@keepingdreams.com> writes:
> > You may have to remove Orca and all associated programs before you can
> > remove espeakup.
>
> Thanks and you are correct but orca is not installed on
> either of the two systems so thankfully, that won't be necessary
>
> > Other than that, someone much wiser than myself will step in and help
> > out.
>
> I feel kind of ashamed at a time like this as I have been
> working in the unix world for 30 years this year and the one
> thing I do know is that one must be very careful to first do no
> harm. I will see if I can purge each of the packages that
> apt-get autoremove says can be safely removed and do this one at
> a time since apt-get autoremove just tries and complains if you
> do it as a batch.
>
Sadly, this sort of breakage happens from time to time. I downloaded
the espeakup binary package and found that the pre-removal script
contents are as follows:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_installinit
if [ -x "/etc/init.d/espeakup" ]; then
invoke-rc.d espeakup stop || exit $?
fi
# End automatically added section
I the espeakup is really not running and you don't need to worry about
stopping it, then a simple 'sudo chmod a-x /etc/init.d/espeakup' will
prevent the prerm script from trying to stop the service.
That should let you get past the error and continue with the removals
and installations.
Regards,
-Roberto
--
Roberto C. Sánchez
