I have never really used tex, to my knowledge (although I'd still like to learn it), so I don't really care if I get this uninstalled or installed, I'd just like to get it clean.
BTW: last saturday I got the debian v2.0 binary main CD, and since have gotten apt, and have done a full apt dist-upgrade, apparently successfully -- this problem has occurred since then, doing another dist-upgrade. One morning, hafter having done an "apt-get -d -y -f upgrade" overnight, I did an "apt-get -f upgrade", and got an error that tex wasn't behaving. I tried installing & unistalling it, with apt, dpkg, and dselect. Kept getting the same results. Okay, I was getting this... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get -f install Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error Correcting dependencies...ok The following extra packages will be installed: tetex-base The following NEW packages will be installed: tetex-base 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0b/3498k of archives. After unpacking 15.9M will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 56061 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tetex-base (from tetex-base_0.9.981008-1.deb) ... checking for old tex packages ... none. ** purging old tex files ** dpkg: error processing tetex-base_0.9.981008-1.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/texmf/doc', which is also in package bibtool dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Preparing to replace tetex-bin 0.9.981008-1 (using tetex-bin_0.9.981008-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement tetex-bin ... rm: /usr/lib/texmf/web2c: is a directory dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... rm: /usr/lib/texmf/web2c: is a directory dpkg: error processing tetex-bin_0.9.981008-1.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 rm: /usr/lib/texmf/web2c: is a directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tetex-base_0.9.981008-1.deb tetex-bin_0.9.981008-1.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code So I did "dpkg -r bibtool", which seemed to help, but I was still getting the errors about /usr/lib/texmf/web2c, and eventually tried removing the dir. Supid ? I dunno. It didn't make it work. I'm now getting: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get -f install Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following packages will be REMOVED: tetex-bin 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 24 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0b of archives. After unpacking 6847k will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: tetex-bin E: Sub-process returned an error code Help ? BTW: So far I'm loving Debian (before last saturday I had been running redhat for some time), and apt is absolutely beautiful... except for this little problem. ________________________________________________________________________ ***PGP fingerprint = D5 EB F8 E7 64 55 CF 91 C2 4F E0 4D 18 B6 7C 27*** [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Chaos reigns.