Seems the unresolved Emerald upgrade will keep on nagging with error messages in Synaptic or apt-get.
I did a Google search for the Emerald issue and discovered that Emerald is not supported on 10.04. (see http://reformedmusings.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/emerald-no-longer- supported-by-compiz-in-ubuntu-lucid-10-04-lts/) I solved (well partly, as the solution is to replace Emerald with GTK ) the issue by starting GTK as windows decorator and then dis some manual tricks to have Emerald removed: gtk-window-decorator --replace & I then tried a shell-based removal : sudo apt-get remove emerald Got some errors : Removing emerald ... update-alternatives: error: while reading /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-window-decorator: Is a directory dpkg: error processing emerald (--remove): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 update-alternatives: error: while reading /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-window-decorator: Is a directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 I then removed the files in the /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-window-decorator directory: sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-window-decorator/entry.desktop sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-window-decorator/flag.png Removed the directory and created an empty file: sudo rmdir /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-window-decorator sudo touch /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-window-decorator Rerunning apt-get: sudo apt-get remove emerald Removed Emerald successfully. -- package emerald 0.7.2-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579023 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
