Re: [Fink-devel] sudo apt-get remove question
Koen van der Drift wrote: I'm trying to force remove a package, but get this output: $ sudo apt-get remove xml-parser-pm588 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: intltool40: Depends: xml-parser-pm588 but it is not going to be installed software-license-pm588: Depends: data-section-pm588 but it is not going to be installed Depends: mro-compat-pm588 but it is not going to be installed Depends: sub-exporter-pm588 but it is not going to be installed Depends: sub-install-pm588 but it is not going to be installed Depends: text-template-pm but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). I don't understand this, why would it complain about unmet dependencies when I want to *remove* a package?? You will probably get the same complaint from apt-get whenever you ask it to do *anything*. It just refuses to work as long as it feels something is unclean in its database. dpkg is much less inhibited, you can use it to --remove --force-all whatever you wish. OTOH, the complaint seems to indicate among other things that xml-parser-pm588 is not installed, at least not according to apt-get. I don't know if apt-get or apt-cache can give you more detailed information, but dpkg -l will. -- Martin -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] sudo apt-get remove question
On Jun 12, 2010, at 6:40 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: You will probably get the same complaint from apt-get whenever you ask it to do *anything*. It just refuses to work as long as it feels something is unclean in its database. dpkg is much less inhibited, you can use it to --remove --force-all whatever you wish. OTOH, the complaint seems to indicate among other things that xml- parser-pm588 is not installed, at least not according to apt-get. I don't know if apt-get or apt-cache can give you more detailed information, but dpkg -l will. It is installed, from fink list --installed: i xml-parser-pm588 2.36-2 Perl ext interface to XML parser/expat and from dpkg -l ri xml-parser-pm588 2.36-2Perl ext interface to XML parser/expat In the end I was able to remove it one package at the time: $ fink remove intltool40 $ fink remove xml-parser-pm588 - Koen. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] sudo apt-get remove question
Koen van der Drift wrote: [] and from dpkg -l ri xml-parser-pm588 2.36-2Perl ext interface to XML parser/expat ri says that it is installed, but marked for removal. I don't quite know what this means, probably that a removal had been attempted, but was unsuccessful. Too unclean for apt-get. -- Martin -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
