On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> What can you do when you can neither install nor uninstall a package, > which is left broken? Did the installation stop when dpkg ran the config. scripts? (ie: all the files had been unpacked, but not yet configured). If yes, cd to /var/lib/dpkg/info, and look for tetex-base.pre* and tetex-base.post*. Then add "exit 0" after the first line (ie: after #!/bin/sh), then "dpkg -r tetex-base" command. > I've done this with tetex-base. Even using the force option to remove it > sith with dpkg doesn't work. Try: dpkg --unpack tetex-base*.deb (in /var/cache/apt/archives) dpkg -r tetex-base > I think I may have to make an entirely new installation of Debian :-( IMHO, this is the wrong way of doing things. Oki
