All right. I didn't want to have to go this route, but it may be necessary to go for the big guns:
sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacs21 (emacs20 for Felix) sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacsen-common -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Ershler Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:52 PM To: Alexander Hansen Cc: 'Fink Users' Subject: Re: [Fink-users] [PANTHER] Emacs 20 in a bad state... On Nov 16, 2003, at 6:19 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > sudo apt-get remove emacsen-common I seem to be stuck in a very similar situation while trying to install emacs21 21.2-26 Philip-Ershlers-Computer:~ ershler$ sudo apt-get remove emacsen-common Password: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: emacs21 emacsen-common 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 4 not upgraded. 5 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 5970 files and directories currently installed.) Removing emacs21 ... dpkg: error processing emacsen-common (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: emacsen-common E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Philip-Ershlers-Computer:~ ershler$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall emacsen-common Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. 4 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/14.3kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Selecting previously deselected package emacsen-common. (Reading database ... 3986 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace emacsen-common 1.4.13-2 (using .../emacsen-common_1.4.13-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... emacs-package-remove: Couldn't open /sw/var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors at /sw/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-remove line 36. dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... emacs-package-remove: Couldn't open /sw/var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors at /sw/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-remove line 36. dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/emacsen-common_1.4.13-2_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 emacs-package-install: Couldn't open /sw/var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors at /sw/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 36. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/emacsen-common_1.4.13-2_darwin-powerpc.deb E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Philip-Ershlers-Computer:~ ershler$ ------------------------------------------------------- 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
