Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-23 Thread Freddie Witherden
Thanks! After editing the pre-removal files (commenting out most of them) and touching the file like you said it all seems to work fine. Thank you very much for all of your help! From: Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Apt Needs Counseling Date: S

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-22 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: Freddie Witherden wrote: Here is the result of using that command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg --force-all -P webmin-core (Reading database ... 75153 files and directories currently installed.) Removing webmin-core ... /etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or directory dpkg: error

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-20 Thread wieseltux23
Marty wrote: > Freddie Witherden wrote: > >> Here is the result of using that command: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg --force-all -P webmin-core >> (Reading database ... 75153 files and directories currently installed.) >> Removing webmin-core ... >> /etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or dire

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-19 Thread Marty
Freddie Witherden wrote: Here is the result of using that command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg --force-all -P webmin-core (Reading database ... 75153 files and directories currently installed.) Removing webmin-core ... /etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing we

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-19 Thread Freddie Witherden
to forget that a package even exists? From: Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Apt Needs Counseling Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:07:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from murphy.debian.org ([146.82.138.6]) by mc11-f22.hotmail.com with Microsoft S

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-17 Thread Marty
Freddie Witherden wrote: Hi, none of those worked. It seems to be because it can not remove (--purge) a package which does not have ant files and when I try to reinstall it apt tries to configure the packages which need it. I need a way of totally nuking those packages from apt's list so that i

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-17 Thread Freddie Witherden
they even exist. From: Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Apt Needs Counseling Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:40:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from murphy.debian.org ([146.82.138.6]) by mc3-f2.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211);

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-16 Thread Adam Porter
Try: apt-get --purge remove webmin webmin-core etc. And/or: apt-get --reinstall install webmin webmin-core etc. apt-get --purge remove webmin webmin-core etc. One or the combination of those should do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble