Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.20 Severity: normal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep-status -FStatus deinstall -sPackage | cut -f2 -d' ' | sudo xargs dpkg --purge Password: dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove tunnelv which isn't installed. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove task-chinese-t which isn't installed.dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove python-elisp which isn't installed. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove bootp which isn't installed. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libwnn6 which isn't installed. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove lg-issue34 which isn't installed. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove lg-issue29 which isn't installed. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libgii-dev which isn't installed. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove gnome-apt which isn't installed.
...lots more of these... dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libxml-dumper-perl which isn't installed. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove kde-i18n-ptbr which isn't installed. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove motion which isn't installed. dpkg: /mount/md0/home/adam/debian/mine/dpkg/v1_9/dpkg-1.9.20/main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. xargs: dpkg: terminated by signal 6 The offending command is essentially trying to purge a huge list of packages which aren't installed (yes, it's broken; should have been s/deinstall/config-files/). http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~aps100/misc/available.gz http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~aps100/misc/status.gz -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux cyclone 2.4.13 #7 Wed Mar 20 23:51:20 GMT 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE= Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-5 The GNU stdc++ library -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
