I removed gpm with: 'update-rc.d -f gpm remove' then 'dpkg -P gpm' Apparently this did not remove a reference to gpm somewhere in the dpkg system. Dselect will not install new packages as it fails with the following messages:
(Reading database ... 69797 files and directories currently installed.) Removing gpm ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/gpm.prerm: /etc/init.d/gpm: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/gpm: invalid option -- x gpm 1.19.6, Thu Oct 4 00:21:21 CEST 2001 Error in the commandline specification. Try "/usr/sbin/gpm -h". /var/lib/dpkg/info/gpm.prerm: : command not found dpkg: error processing gpm (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/gpm: file does not exist dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: gpm TIA for Help -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux
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