[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco Rijnders) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ktb wrote: > > Have you tried installing php4 unstable or stable? Use the "-s" > > switch to "apt-get" and see what would happen. > > Before reading your (or any) answer, I went ahead and pointed apt at > the unstable archive and got PHP4 from there. Unfortunately, it seems > like this really messed things up for me: > > Preparing to replace php4 4.0.4pl1-2 (using .../php4_4.0.4pl1-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement php4 ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/php4.postrm: line 28: syntax error near unexpected token > `*)' > dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2 > dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
<deleted> > Not only is the package in an inconsistent state, but bad and even > very bad to top that off. I'm a bit at a loss as what to do about this > one... but I'll steam on it for a bit. Sure makes me wish I would have > listened to your -s advice. > > Anyways, thank you for your help :) I filed that as a bug already. It's two times two colons missing in the case struct in the postrm script. Try to fix that in /var/lib/dpkg/info/php4.postrm manually and it'll work. :-) -- Tschoe, Get my gpg-public-key here Jens http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt