> On Jun 11, 2016, at 03:36, Sean Lake <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I just tried using dpkg to remove wxmaxima-mac, and this is what it said:
>
> sudo dpkg --purge wxmaxima-mac
> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing wxmaxima-mac (--purge):
> Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
> reinstall it before attempting a removal.
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> wxmaxima-mac
>
> So, I give up. I'm going to erase the Fink install and start from scratch,
> making sure to remove that directory in /Applications/
>
> Could you add a configuration option to keep fink confined to its install
> dir? I like the convenience of being able to uninstall by erasing /sw/. If
> that's not possible, then some sort of "uninstall all of fink" command that
> handles all of the package removal scripts automatically would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean Lake
>
No, we probably won’t be doing a configuration option like that.
/Applications/Fink contains just a bunch of symlinks to the real app bundle
folders in /sw/Applications, to make it easier for users to run those. At
best, having a dangling symlink in /Applications/Fink will prevent a package
from being installed because the post install scripts won’t overwrite such a
symlink.
Your errors were with _real_ files in /sw: "rm:
/sw/Applications/wxMaxima.app/Contents/PkgInfo: No such file or directory"
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
I’m not sure what caused that, since the current pre-removal script for
wxmaxima* looks like:
$ cat /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/wxmaxima-mac.prerm
#!/bin/sh
# prerm script for package wxmaxima-mac, auto-created by fink
set -e
# generated from InfoDocs directive
if [ -f /sw/share/info/dir ]; then
/sw/sbin/install-info --infodir=/sw/share/info --remove wxmaxima.info
fi
exit 0
I.e., no mention of /sw/Applications/wxMaxima.app/Contents/PkgInfo. I’d have
been curious to see what the contents of yours was, but I guess it’s too late
now. Removing the “set -e” declaration in one of these scripts can be a way
around stuck installs/removes, because the script won’t throw an error when a
command fails.
A “remove all of Fink” script would be “sudo rm -rf /sw /Applications/Fink”.
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