Re: dpkg & dselect refuse to delete or install a package

2000-03-07 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Block) wrote: >A friend of mine is having problems with a package (xwhois) that refuses >to be either upgraded or removed. That would be no big deal, but it is >also causing dselect & apt to crap out when trying to upgrade. [...] >$ sudo dpkg --purge xwhois >Password: >dpk

dpkg & dselect refuse to delete or install a package

2000-03-06 Thread Joe Block
A friend of mine is having problems with a package (xwhois) that refuses to be either upgraded or removed. That would be no big deal, but it is also causing dselect & apt to crap out when trying to upgrade. The system is running stable, and the only entries in the /etc/apt/sources.list are for my