Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I took a new CDrom (2.1) and did re-deselect, which did a lot of upgrades > to various stuff. > > The end result is that everything seems OK, except a remaining dependency > problem, based on Samba, but it won't remove, and it depends on > libpam-util, and thus I cannot remove libpam-util (which is not > configured), and which is the reported error. > > running dpkg --pending --remove ... > (Reading database ... 18478 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing samba ... > dpkg: error processing samba (--remove): > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libpam0: > samba depends on libpam0 (>= 0.56-1). > dpkg: error processing libpam0 (--remove): > dependency problems - not removing > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libpam-util: > libpam0 depends on libpam-util (>= 0.56-2). > dpkg: error processing libpam-util (--remove): > dependency problems - not removing > Errors were encountered while processing: > samba > libpam0 > libpam-util
Try `dpkg --force-depends --purge libpam0 libpam-util', then do apt-get install samba Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USA PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9