Hi,
I have a problem trying to remove the binary installation of auctex.
Neither "fink remove" nor "dpkg --remove" have the desired effect.
The output looks as follows (my commands are preceded by "$ "):
$ sudo fink remove --recursive auctex
Password:
Information about 5144 packages read in 3 seconds.
/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait remove auctex
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
auctex
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1536kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 48962 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing auctex ...
remove/auctex: Removing for emacs21... rmdir: illegal option -- -
usage: rmdir [-p] directory ...
emacs-package-remove: /sw/lib/emacsen-common/packages/remove/auctex
emacs21 emacs21 failed at /sw/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-remove
line 30.
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing auctex (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
install/auctex: Byte-compiling for emacs21... done.
Checking /sw/var/lib/auctex/emacs21/...
Done (Total of 0 files compiled)
* AUCTeX: (auctex). A much enhanced LaTeX mode for GNU Emacs.
install-info(/sw/share/info/auctex): replacing existing dir entry for
`auctex'
Errors were encountered while processing:
auctex
E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100
Failed: can't remove package auctex
$
$ sudo dpkg --remove auctex
Password:
(Reading database ... 48962 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing auctex ...
remove/auctex: Removing for emacs21... rmdir: illegal option -- -
usage: rmdir [-p] directory ...
emacs-package-remove: /sw/lib/emacsen-common/packages/remove/auctex
emacs21 emacs21 failed at /sw/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-remove
line 30.
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing auctex (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
install/auctex: Byte-compiling for emacs21... done.
Checking /sw/var/lib/auctex/emacs21/...
Done (Total of 0 files compiled)
* AUCTeX: (auctex). A much enhanced LaTeX mode for GNU Emacs.
install-info(/sw/share/info/auctex): replacing existing dir entry for
`auctex'
Errors were encountered while processing:
auctex
$
I am running MacOS X 10.4 with all updates installed. I have run
"fink selfupdate" and "fink update-all" before removing auctex.
Actually, the reason why I want to remove auctex is because the above
problem caused the update-all to fail.
Is there anything short of "rm -rf /sw" and reinstalling all to solve
this problem?
Thanks in advance!
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