On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 10:46:33PM +0000, Peter Flynn wrote: > On 18/02/2022 17:01, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 03:58:49PM +0000, Peter Flynn wrote: > > > > Unpacking terminology-data (1.12.1-0bionic0) ... > > > > dpkg: error processing archive [...] > > > > tl, dr: Probably the easiest fix is to manually remove all of the > > erroring packages and then reinstall terminology and enlightenment. > > Unfortunately it's not possible to remove the error packages: all apt does > is repeat the error message.
apt is trying to first fix the partially installed packages. You might have better luck with dpkg. Here's some ideas. First try to use dpkg to do the removal: dpkg --remove terminology terminology-data And if that works, you should be able to go ahead and remove all of the wedged EFL packages: dpkg --remove libeina1a libeet1 ... And then reinstall: apt-get install terminology enlightenment You could try to finish the current half-installations, allowing overwrites: dpkg --install --force-overwrite No idea how likely that is to work. If neither of those work, you should be able to force the removals: dpkg --purge --force-all terminology terminology-data ... And then reinstall. > > Looks like a bug in the Linux Mint packages. I would've guessed that > > Minut was using the official Debian packages, but this is a bug that > > never existed in my packages. > > I think it's more likely related to the fact that this machine hadn't been > used for a long time, so there was a lot of updating, and some unrelated > package triggered a chain of dependencies too long to handle. No that's definitely not it - one might need to be an expert to understand it, but the error message is clear. The new version of terminology-data tried to take over installing /usr/share/locale without adding package relationships to indicate that. dpkg won't allow packages to overwrite one another's data. Ross _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
