problem with dselect/dpkg

When I run dselect, and try to install packages this is what happens: packages are downloaded correctly, it has trouble removing adbbs (but i think this is unrelated to my main later problem), it gives me the 'Some errors occured while unpacking...' message, i press enter to continue, and it

Re: problem with dselect/dpkg

*- On 24 Jul, Helen Cook wrote about problem with dselect/dpkg When I run dselect, and try to install packages this is what happens: packages are downloaded correctly, it has trouble removing adbbs (but i think this is unrelated to my main later problem), it gives me the 'Some errors occured

Problem with dselect, dpkg

I am having a problem with dselect; the computer hung while installing software, and would not respond to control-c, to trying to log in on another console, nothing. I rebooted, and now dpkg, dselect and apt all hang when trying to do anything. Is there a file I can edit/nuke to fix this? I tried