On Jul 28, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > On 7/28/06, Andrew Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I searched the archives and failed to find a solution that worked. >> When I try to remove gnme I get: >> ~ $ fkr gnome-base >> Information about 5937 packages read in 13 seconds. >> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait --remove gnome-base >> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of gnome-base: >> gnome-print-shlibs depends on gnome-base. >> gnome-mime-data depends on gnome-base. >> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing gnome-base (--remove): >> dependency problems - not removing >> Errors were encountered while processing: >> gnome-base >> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1 >> ERROR: Can't remove package(s). If the above error message mentions >> dependency problems, you can try >> fink remove --recursive gnome-base >> This will attempt to remove the package(s) specified as well as ALL >> packages that depend on it. >> Failed: can't remove package gnome-base >> >> --recursive doesn't work either. >> >> I'm really tired of chasing and removing dependencies manually, is >> there a way to get rid of all of gnome? >> > You _should_ be able to do a recursive remove via gnome-base. What's > failing in that case?
I get: Information about 5939 packages read in 5 seconds. /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait remove gnome-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: gnome-mime-data: Depends: gnome-base but it is not going to be installed gnome-print-shlibs: Depends: gnome-base but it is not going to be installed gtkhtml-shlibs: Depends: bonobo (>= 1.0.20-13) but it is not going to be installed guppi16-dev: Depends: guppi16-shlibs (= 0.40.3-1015) but 0.40.3-1016 is to be installed libmikmod: Depends: libmikmod-shlibs (= 3.1.11-2) but 3.1.11-3 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100 Failed: can't remove package gnome-base ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
