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
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doc-base cannot be removed/purged
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391464
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