-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:25:08 -0600 John Hasler <jhas...@debian.org> wrote:
> Sjoerd Hiemstra writes: > > It looks like aptitude is not able, at the moment, to recover a > > package from that 'half-configured' state. > > Dpkg usually can. > -- > John Hasler > Unfortunately not in my case anyway - I tried every way to get it to delete or uninstall, including using the --force-all option. Along the way it came up with some bizarre warnings. Aptitude at one point told me it was going to remove unrelated packages such as wbarconf, and would install Iceape along with a bunch of others. I told it to go ahead to see if that might help...but then it complained about the half installed package. It seemed like there was no way around the problem. Maybe dpkg needs a "JustDoIt" option :) - -- Frank -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLHFO2AAoJEMEDyLTvrVhjg8sIAKhyjbPRWWmWecx9pGb49nP+ 8nxchB5eXSlhQ2Lmch9tm5zugpdbo64FUXVMGZSeYHXFzJ7ssSlRDLIWTIC1jIWG L/QnKB0n9RDdasgiTPuOMtXa4GHfQvyaHSDutorpCqqUlkxJ2szLKjRQTdeBgdry QBisMfBicandgleIuwEyHx6j3PDqx58Ku8DeVdYa2yLq1NbQt7vNTF6cHoEQfXMU mtgD4eXNj6FHEK1zbbLoqAAyYMLaThzDRjKNVREmO2COO+xYvw4kqnl0kshOhQRd MpVBiGOv/R06WQ4cjLTtU7rdq7NhvLLRwhUHjkYnsJfyC2xkw2nUTvFvJgDbNn8= =ykQF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org