Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 Severity: minor I ran this twice, but had to resort to dpkg --configure -a to get the job actually done.
# aptitude purge The following partially installed packages will be configured: man-db sgml-base sgml-data No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] # aptitude purge The following partially installed packages will be configured: man-db sgml-base sgml-data No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] # dpkg --configure -a Processing triggers for sgml-base (1.26+nmu4) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-2) ... # aptitude purge No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel

