Re: dpkg broken because of scilab-sivp

2009-09-04 Thread Mike P
>> $ apt-get remove scilab-sivp >> ... >> dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure): >> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > However, in general, you can bypass this error--"subprocess post-installation > script returned error"--by removing /var/lib/dpkg/info/$packa

Re: dpkg broken because of scilab-sivp

2009-09-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 04 September 2009 09:03:34 Mike P wrote: > $ apt-get remove scilab-sivp > ... > dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 This error is because of something that happened before it, that usually generates some output.

dpkg broken because of scilab-sivp

2009-09-04 Thread Mike P
Hi, After dist-upgrade I am left with the package scilab-sivp which refuses to be removed and also precludes me from installing anything else. It seems that scilab-sivp depends on sivp package, but since sivp is not installed dpkg fails. I can't either install sivp or uninstall scilab-sivp. Is the