Re: Removing broken packages

1999-07-27 Thread Carl Mummert
>dpkg error processing blackbox >subprocess post-removal script returned error >exit status 1 Go to /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and look at blackbox.postrm. This is the script that is failing. You can 'force' things by just moving this script somewhere else and running dpkg --purge blackbox. You may

Removing broken packages

1999-07-27 Thread Bruce Mobarry
Hi all, I am new to Debian, having recently replaced Redhat 5.2 with Slink on my computer. Everything went well until I foolishly tried to install Blackbox 0.5 from unstable on my system. It didn't work, of course. I tried apt-get -remove, dpkg -r, dpkg --purge, dpkg -r --force- and always retu