On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:25:55PM +1200, bewm wrote:
| hi,
|
| i typed in, apt-get dist-upgrade -f
| it downloads all the files like normal,
| but for them to install it had to remove a package called gdm...
You probably want to keep gdm -- it s the login dialog yo usee when
you have X run at boot time. You could remove it, then try and add it
back later.
| this is what it said when it tried to remove it:
|
| Removing gdm ...
| dpkg: error processing gdm (--remove):
| subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
| Errors were encountered while processing:
| gdm
|
| anyone know how to fix this or atleast tell me how to get rid of gdm so i
| can successfully dist-upgrade..
I don't know how to fix it, but to remove it try
apt-get remove --force gdm
that may try and remove other stuff too, I don't know.
-D
