I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I
was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to
resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install
it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove
openoffice.org-writer2latex. I ended up aborting the process and went on
about my business. Tonight I needed to install ksensors on the same
machine when the OpenOffice problem again reared its ugly head.
rattler:~# aptitude install ksensors
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
hddtemp{a} ksensors
The following packages will be REMOVED:
openoffice.org-writer2latex{u}
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 355kB of archives. After unpacking 434kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://10.10.10.1 lenny/main ksensors 0.7.3-16 [301kB]
Get:2 http://10.10.10.1 lenny/main hddtemp 0.3-beta15-44 [54.1kB]
Fetched 355kB in 1s (191kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 182769 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing openoffice.org-writer2latex ...
At this point, aptitude will sit here for as long as you are willing to
wait. On another terminal, I did 'ps ax'. The relevant portions follow:
4726 pts/3 Sl+ 0:03 aptitude install ksensors
4757 pts/6 Ss+ 0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 24
--force-depends --force-remove-essential --remove
openoffice.org-writer2latex
4758 pts/6 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove
4759 pts/6 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove
4760 pts/6 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg
list --shared
4761 pts/6 S+ 0:00 grep Identifier:.*writer2latex
4762 pts/6 S+ 0:00 cut -d: -f2
4780 pts/6 S+ 0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 4
4802 pts/6 R+ 0:11 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin list
--shared -env:JFW_PLUGIN_DO_NOT_CHECK_ACCESSIBILITY=1
-env:UNO_JAVA_JFW_INSTALL_DATA=$$ORIGIN/../share/config/javasettingsunopkginstall.xml
-env:UserInstallation=fi
4803 pts/4 R+ 0:00 ps ax
How can I go about resolving this issue? would it be safe to manually
delete:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-write2latex.prerm
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin
I'm guessing the answer to this would be no as I think it would corrupt
the dpkg database.
Thanks for any clues!
Mike
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