I'm running a Knoppix 4.0 DVD distro installed to hard drive, and recently apt has refused to update or install _anything_. I seem to have some packages "halfway installed", or perhaps installed twice (as it appears in synaptic), notably esound-common (I was tweaking my sound packages a few weeks back).
Here is the script of a recent attempt: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: esound-common The following packages will be REMOVED: libwine libwine-print libwine-twain wine wine-utils winetools The following packages will be upgraded: esound-common 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 1894 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/38.2kB of archives. After unpacking 11.2MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 358458 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace esound-common 0.2.35-2.1 (using .../esound-common_0.2.36-3_all.deb) ... /usr/share/doc-base/esound-common: cannot open control file for reading: No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/esound-common_0.2.36-3_all.deb (--unpack): there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/esound-common_0.2.36-3_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I've tried a lot of things, including plenty of Googling, but it all boils down to this. FWIW, fsck notices a few errors it can't fix on my HD; I'll get to those soon by booting from the original Knoppix DVD. The errors don't seem to be in /etc/apt or anything. I'm almost at the point of reinstalling, but I really don't want to do that. Any other ideas? Thanks, Ron Hale-Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
