On Thu, Feb 26, 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: > # dpkg --purge remove nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 > dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove remove which isn't installed.
Heh, classy. I assure you that the below errors still occur when I *don't* mix up apt and dpkg arguments and also if I pass --remove rather than --purge: > dpkg: error processing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 (--purge): > Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should > reinstall it before attempting a removal. > Errors were encountered while processing: > nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
