Re: [dpkg] broken local package system

2016-07-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Jul 2016 at 18:25:51 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > fixed. I removed exim4-base and it took me back to the terminal stage > of the postfix install. Considering it is impossible to have two MTAs at the same time one wonders how exim4-base was on your machine at the simultaneously with postf

Re: [dpkg] broken local package system

2016-07-16 Thread Aaron Gray
fixed. I removed exim4-base and it took me back to the terminal stage of the postfix install. On 16 July 2016 at 16:39, Aaron Gray wrote: > Debian 8 nearly a fresh install too > see my other post as to how it got like it > > > On 16 July 2016 at 16:18, Francesco Ariis wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 16,

Re: [dpkg] broken local package system

2016-07-16 Thread Aaron Gray
Debian 8 nearly a fresh install too see my other post as to how it got like it On 16 July 2016 at 16:18, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 04:12:54PM +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: >> Hi, >> >> dpkg seems to be totally broken :- > > Hello Aaron, > is this Debian of Frankendebian? >

Re: [dpkg] broken local package system

2016-07-16 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 04:12:54PM +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > Hi, > > dpkg seems to be totally broken :- Hello Aaron, is this Debian of Frankendebian?

Re: dpkg broken because of scilab-sivp

2009-09-04 Thread Mike P
>> $ apt-get remove scilab-sivp >> ... >> dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure): >> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > However, in general, you can bypass this error--"subprocess post-installation > script returned error"--by removing /var/lib/dpkg/info/$packa

Re: dpkg broken because of scilab-sivp

2009-09-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 04 September 2009 09:03:34 Mike P wrote: > $ apt-get remove scilab-sivp > ... > dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 This error is because of something that happened before it, that usually generates some output.

Re: Dpkg broken.

2001-05-17 Thread Andreas Hatz
Have you tried: # apt-get --fix-broken remove # apt-get --fix-broken install ? Kieren Diment wrote: > > I was trying to install LyX, with dpkg -i lyx*.deb, but was told that > libforms0.89 was not installed. > > So after that I kept making errors, downloading libforms-bin and > installing th