The reason I was stuck with the uninstallable package was that the failure of the attempt to uninstall it seemed to block aptitude from uninstalling/upgrading other packages.
I do not remember the exact error message. I think it was something about trying to do echo <(echo) and getting a complaint that the pipeline is broken. Eventually, I uninstalled using dpkg --remove, figuring that any unmet dependencies will be fixed later by aptitude. With this done, I was successful in sorting out things. The only remaining problem is that packages 'dkms', 'evdi-dkms', 'libevdi0' are not properly installed. This is due to missing header file 'drm.h', which is referred to by /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.13.1/build/evdi_drm.h. There are also some non-fatal annoyances: 1. The Google talkplugin source (http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/) has now an invalid signature, and aptitude shouts about this each time I update sources. This file claims to be automatically modified, so I didn't try to edit it. The same source is perfectly OK in a Debian 11 (Bullseye) installation. 2. The terminal font is different from the one to which I am used, even though both claim to be monospace ("Monospace 12" in Debian 11 / GNOME Terminal 3.38.3; "Monospace Regular 12" in Debian 12 / GNOME Terminal 3.46.8 for GNOME 43). I was not successful in identifying the actual font being used by the terminal program in both installations. --- Omer Zak On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 13:58 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 04:08:44PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > I am trying to recover from the bungled upgrade. > > I found some answers in the Internet. For example, to use kernel > > 6.1.0- > > 17 instead of 6.1.0-18 whose package version is 6.1.76-1) and to > > enable > > bookworm-updates > > (https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/debian-12-and-nvidia-driver-nvidia-linux-x86-64-470-223-02-run/282473 > > ). > > > > Now I am stuck with inability to uninstall xorg-video-nvidia-tesla- > > 470 > > (which I think was installed in one of failed attempts to recover) > > due > > to error in its postrm script. > > What is the error? Why do you need to uninstall it? You can always > edit > the postrm script. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list -- linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il To unsubscribe send an email to linux-il-le...@cs.huji.ac.il
