On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 17:24, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Hi all - I have messed up trying to install a squirrelmail .deb package > for Sid on my Potato box. Now I would like to remove it completely and > install from the plain sources. > Only if I try to remove the package to return to a clean state, I get > dpkg errors of this nature: > > Removing squirrelmail ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/squirrelmail.postrm: > /usr/share/wwwconfig-common/apache-cominclude_all.sh: No such file or > directory > dpkg: error processing squirrelmail (--remove): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > squirrelmail > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > I suppose it would be easiest just to delete the lines from > /var/lib/dpkg/status, but that is a bit of a cheat. I would prefer to > properly remove everything. > Can someone point me in the right direction? What are the contents of the squirrelmail.postrm-script? Maybe a simple touch /usr/share/wwwconfig-common/apache-cominclude_all.sh could help?
I would not advise anyone to edit the status-file. Believe me, I've tried :)
