Thank You for Your time and answer, Jochen: > Sthu Deus: > > > > I can not remove the following: > > > > $ sudo /usr/bin/dpkg -r postgresql-8.3 postgresql-client-8.3 > > Why do you use dpkg for that? Have you tried apt-get or aptitude? I > guess they will do what you want to achieve. > > J.
I've tried that already. Please check this: The following packages will be REMOVED: postgresql-8.3 [8.3.11-0lenny1] postgresql-client-8.3 [8.3.12-0lenny1] 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 20.8MB ... Removing postgresql-8.3 ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql-8.3.prerm: line 17: /usr/share/postgresql-common/maintscripts-functions: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing postgresql-8.3 (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: postgresql-client-8.3: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: postgresql-8.3 depends on postgresql-client-8.3. Removing postgresql-client-8.3 ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql-client-8.3.prerm: line 8: /usr/share/postgresql-common/maintscripts-functions: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing postgresql-client-8.3 (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql-client-8.3.postinst: line 5: /usr/share/postgresql-common/maintscripts-functions: No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: postgresql-8.3 postgresql-client-8.3 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cd0e70f.ce7c0e0a.0cf1.ffffc...@mx.google.com