Hi MadMac, I don't know if this is very dangerous or not, but I screwed up an install of courier-imap only two days ago. And not matter what I tried, I could not remove it or reinstall it at all.
I tried: dpkg -r --force-all courier-imap Which still returned errors. The way round it, I found by experimentation, was to remove the entry from the following file, as this holds the current status of all packages that are installed. /var/lib/dpkg/status I do not know how dangerous this would be, but it worked for me and I was able to purge courier-imap and reinstall it again. Anyone else who can shine a light on how dangerous or not this can be, apart from the fact you could remove the wrong parts of the status file by mistake. ;) Thanks, Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug MacFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 3:47 PM Subject: Getting Rid of a Failed Install > > Team: > > I've got a botched install of apache2 that I can't uninstall since the init.d > start/stop script always returns an error. > > apt/dpkg keep the package's removal in the pending state, and whenever I do anything > else it retries the removal and fails. How do I correct this? > > madmac > > > > -- > Doug MacFarlane > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
