On Sunday 03 February 2002 12:55 pm, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: > Hi ... > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:14:58PM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: > >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: snip > > why did you not purge gpm with dpkg -P gpm only? > It will work as well. If you will do so, without update-rc.d -f gpm
Thanks for the info, I was under the (mistaken?) impression that 'update-rc.d' removed the links from ~/init.d/ to the various run levels, so I used it first, (I thought it would leave the gpm script in ~/init.d) Then on some subsequent update gpm was being reinstalled/reconfigured so I did the 'dpkg -P' to not have any more references to it on my box. I have already ran 'dpkg -P' and didn't notice the error messages until I tried using dselect, I usually use 'apt-get' > Because of the running update-rc.d -f gpm remove before purging gpm, > there is no /etc/init.d/gpm, so the dpkg is not able to purge gpm at > all. Look intp /var/lib/dpkg/info/gpm.prerm, there will be a test > like > > if /etc/init.d/gpm stop; then return 0; fi > > comment or delete this line, and then, dpkg -P will work. I renamed the file ~.save and dselect worked :) -- Greg Madden
