Haste make waste, as it always turns out. I installed ipmasq and iptables. I then tried to remove both packages but ipmasq choked:
# apt-get remove ipmasq Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ipmasq 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 455kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 10517 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ipmasq ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/ipmasq.prerm: /etc/init.d/ipmasq: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing ipmasq (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: ipmasq E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The other package is iptables -- I want that installed (i just want the iptables program not the save/restore stuff from init.d). So I then tried to install iptables again, but since ipmasq is still partially installed itables tried to write ppp into /etc/ipmasq but that's gone. So, now I've two broken packages. Anyway, I've tried --force and dpkg --configure ipmasq but can't seem to get anywhere. This is something I should know, but first time something has been this broken. What's the trick purge the packages and start over? Thanks, -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
