Russell, I'd like to thank you again for all your help. This is what makes Debian great (IMO). Now that Zope is upgraded, dselect and apt-get were able to finish installing my XWindows system and other programs. I am now fully up and functioning again.
Thanks again! Regards, Russ On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Russell Shaw wrote: > Russ Cook wrote: > > Thanks for the continued help. Attached are the results of > > 'whereis python' and 'ls -l /usr/bin/python'. The symlink > > points to python2.3. And yet, the zope pre-removal script > > encounters errors in python1.5, which makes me think it is > > explicitly seeking and calling routines from the earlier version. > > More thoughts? > > Interesting. I'd try apt-get remove python1.5 if nothing > important depends on it. > > Before a package is removed, its preremoval script is run. > After removal, the postremoval script is run. These scripts > are in /var/lib/dpkg/info. You could inspect the script and, > run it, but i don't know how messy or disruptive that would be. > > fsck the partition > > apt-get remove --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends zope > (IIRC that was already tried) > > If that doesn't work, i'd manually delete all the zope files > and directories, shown with dpkg -L zope. Edit /var/lib/dpkg/status > so that zope looks like an uninstalled package. > > apt-get install zope > > Make a backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status and anything else important. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
