In fact, I ended up editing by hand:
sudo xemacs var/lib/dpkg/status
and this seems to fix my pb... I am not sure if this will cause pb in the
future or no... We will see.
11/17/03 6:01 PM, « Alexander K. Hansen » <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq emacs20
--
Maybe try
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq emacs20
From the "force" section of "man dpkg":
remove-reinstreq: Remove a package, even if it's
broken and marked to require reinstallation. This
may, for example, cause parts of the package to
I nuked every file in /sw related to emacs 20...
still dselect believe it is in a bad state and choke on it... there must be
a database somewhere which specify this "state"... is it editable?
[Zag:~] felix% sudo dselect
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Packages
Hit http://us.dl.
Nope...
[Zag:~] felix% sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacs20
Password:
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
(Reading database ... 35957 files and directories currently insta
Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
All right. I didn't want to have to go this route, but it may be necessary
to go for the big guns:
sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacs21
(emacs20 for Felix)
sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacsen-common
I think you need even bigger guns, namely to edit directly some
This is after deleting the entire /sw tree, and reinstalling fink from
the binary distribution. I also did a selfupdate and update-all.
After trying again to install emacs21 I'm back at the same vicious
circle again.
Thanks, Phil
On Nov 16, 2003, at 7:33 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
All r
u/LDX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Ershler
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:52 PM
To: Alexander Hansen
Cc: 'Fink Users'
Subject: Re: [Fink-users] [PANTHER] Emacs 20 in a bad state...
On Nov 16, 2003, at 6:19 PM, Alexand
On Nov 16, 2003, at 6:19 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
sudo apt-get remove emacsen-common
I seem to be stuck in a very similar situation while trying to install
emacs21 21.2-26
Philip-Ershlers-Computer:~ ershler$ sudo apt-get remove emacsen-common
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building
nt
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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Ingrand
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 5:25 AM
To: Fink Users
Subject: [Fink-users] [PANTHER] Emacs 20 in a bad state...
I am using dselect to update to 10.3 but I ran
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> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 5:25 AM
> To: Fink Users
> Subject: [Fink-users] [PANTHER] Emacs 20 in a bad state...
>
> I am using dselect to update to 10.3 but I ran in a pb with emacs 20 (which
> I did not even remember installing)..
5:25 AM
To: Fink Users
Subject: [Fink-users] [PANTHER] Emacs 20 in a bad state...
I am using dselect to update to 10.3 but I ran in a pb with emacs 20 (which
I did not even remember installing)... that I cannot now remove... nor
reinstall...
Is there a way to force remove it or force reinstall it whi
I am using dselect to update to 10.3 but I ran in a pb with emacs 20 (which
I did not even remember installing)... that I cannot now remove... nor
reinstall...
Is there a way to force remove it or force reinstall it which can fix this
pb?
PS: I fixed my /sw/etc/apt/sources.list which now contain
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