Try "sudo apt-get install --reinstall emacs20" to reinstall it. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Felix Ingrand Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 5:25 AM To: Fink Users Subject: [Fink-users] [PANTHER] Emacs 20 in a bad state... I am using dselect to update to 10.3 but I ran in a pb with emacs 20 (which I did not even remember installing)... that I cannot now remove... nor reinstall... Is there a way to force remove it or force reinstall it which can fix this pb? PS: I fixed my /sw/etc/apt/sources.list which now contains: deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download 10.3/release main Thanks in advance, Do you want to continue? [Y/n] dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. (Reading database ... 35957 files and directories currently installed.) Removing emacsen-common ... emacsen-common: Handling removal of emacsen flavor emacs emacsen-common: Handling removal of emacsen flavor emacs20 emacsen-common: purging byte-compiled files for emacs20 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. installation script returned error exit status 100. Press <enter> to continue. running dpkg --pending --configure ... running dpkg --pending --remove ... dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 dpkg --remove returned error exit status 1. Press <enter> to continue. running dpkg --pending --remove ... dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 -- Felix ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users