Sorry for posting this a 2nd time, but damned hotmail treats
the debian lists as spam by default, and until I noticed that
and turned off all blocking it was trashing all list traffic.
If anyone replied could you try once again.
I got the signup, confirmation emails, and my original post
but nothing else. Another Microsoft plot for sure! Very
strange.
Thanks.
Where can I find older versions of packages that did not make it
into stable? I installed unstable (2.2) on a box way back
before it was frozen, and toyed with it for a while, then left it aside
until now. I think I removed most of /usr/share and some
other locations (it has only a 100meg harddrive so I was looking
to trim it down some). But this has trashed gpm,
cpio and a few other non-essential progs. I cannot uninstall them
dpkgsays:
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
But the package has been updated to a new version, and I cannot install it.
I have tried the force option and can't get it to
remove it. Maybe it is just my syntax:
dpkg -r gpm --force-remove-reinstreq
other slightly different wordings get the same result.
If I dig through the deb file, and figure out what files it
would install and touch these files on the system will dpkg
think everything is fine and remove them? Ie does dpkg
checksum or verify the package's files in any way?
Thanks.
Gregg
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