"Raymond L. Zarling" wrote: > > > As you can see, it is the same as everything else; the pre-removal script > (or post-installation script, as the case may be) keeps failing. > > I have also managed to manually download the xserver-xfree86...deb file, and > got it to unpack using apt-get unpack, thinking perhaps the copy that had > been automatically downloaded by dselect when I first started all this (and > which has since, evidently, been cleaned away) might have been corrupt. > Well, still no joy. > > So I followed another user's suggestion and downloaded the binary from > ftp.xfree86.org and installed it. It installed fine, but I _still_ can't > clear the error in the package managers! xserver-xfree86 still shows up as > a "Broken Optional Package in Section X11", and it won't remove! > > This is making me crazy. Do dpkg, apt-get, etc. rally not have some kind of > "override" that will just let you start over? Is my only option to > reformat the drive and install the whole OS from scratch? > > --Ray >
Hi Ray, have a look at the files in /var/lib/dpkg. May be there are inconsistencies. May be you can solve the problem there but surely you can mess up your whole system. Therefor be warned! Greetings Albrecht
