Re: dpkg problem with incomplete install

1999-03-23 Thread Harald Weidner
Hello, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph F. Dries III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've tried to do a dpkg --remove, --purge, --configure, etc. They all >fail, saying there is no /etc/qpage.conf file, it tries to restart, >qpage, gives an error 100. An error message like that often comes fr

Re: dpkg problem with incomplete install

1999-03-22 Thread Joseph F. Dries III
Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:03:47 -0700 (MST), Bruce Sass wrote: > >On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Joseph F. Dries III wrote: > >> I've tried to do a dpkg --remove, --purge, --configure, etc. They all > >> fail, saying there is no /etc/qpage.conf file, it tries to restart, > >> qpage, giv

Re: dpkg problem with incomplete install

1999-03-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:03:47 -0700 (MST), Bruce Sass wrote: >On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Joseph F. Dries III wrote: >> I've tried to do a dpkg --remove, --purge, --configure, etc. They all >> fail, saying there is no /etc/qpage.conf file, it tries to restart,

Re: dpkg problem with incomplete install

1999-03-22 Thread Bruce Sass
When all else fails, do it manually. After you have hunted down the files in the package (via /var/lib/dpkg/info/qpage.list, don't forget to check the ../info/qpage.{pre,post}inst scripts for files created or modified), use a text editor and remove the qpage entries in /var/lib/dpkg/{status,avail

dpkg problem with incomplete install

1999-03-22 Thread Joseph F. Dries III
Hello All- I've just switched over to Debian 2.1 from many years of running RedHat, SlackWare, or SLS distributions. I've got an issue where one of the deb packages (qpage) was unpacked, but not configured, and therefore the installation will not complete. It's listed as a broken package, both in