Public bug reported: Binary package hint: doc-base
Using an updated (time of writing) Ubuntu 8.04.2, trying to remove the package doc-base results in a failure: $ sudo apt-get remove doc-base Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: docbook-xml sgml-data scrollkeeper Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: doc-base 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 336kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 29531 files and directories currently installed.) Removing doc-base ... cannot find install-docs on path dpkg: error processing doc-base (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: doc-base E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) As you can see, it cannot find "install-docs" program/script, but it's about to be removed anyhow. This bug effects the following packages as well (cannot be removed or purged) docbook-xml scrollkeeper sgml-data xml-core ** Affects: doc-base (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- doc-base cannot be removed/purged https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391464 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs