Thanks for the hint. I was unaware of the --purge option in dpkg. It seems like thats all that needed to be done. There were files in /etc/rc* and I even deleted them but that was not helping. --purge worked!
-Ryan On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, steve j. kondik wrote: > if the init.d script is trying to stop it, just do this: > > rm /etc/init.d/icecast > touch /etc/init.d/icecast > chmod +x /etc/init.d/icecast > > this will just make a dummy file that will satisfy dpkg so you can --purge > it and try reinstalling it. > > -steve > > On 01/10/00 @ 04:39PM, Ryan White wrote: > > > > I seem to have an problem installing icecast-server. > > > > Unpacking icecast-server (from .../icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb) ... > > start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/icecast: No such file or directory > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack): > > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
