Hi, I somehow managed to get things in an annoying state. I've been trying to install kde. I got the .deb files from the kde site and tried to install them. Somewhere along the line things got screwed up. I had the wrong version of qt installed (I had 1.40 and kde required 1.42) so things wouldn't configure. I couldn't find qt1.42 so I decided to delete the kde packages. Now kdebase refuses to go away. When I use dselect, it has an "I" in the installed state field and it insists on trying to remove it (which fails every time). If I try to tell it to install kdebase (which I hoped would just overwrite the old one) it gets very confused. When I select kdebase, it goes to the dependency window. Even though I have everything selected for install (which is what it says it wants) when I try to leave the dependency window it just jumps right back in. The only way to get out of the dependency window is to deselect everything.
I can no longer install anything through dselect because it's dead set on trying to remove kdebase. How to I tell it to quit trying to remove kdebase? When I run dpkg from the command line to remove kdebase, I get the following output: (Reading database ... 55600 files and directories currently installed.) Removing kdebase ... dpkg - warning: while removing kdebase, directory `/etc/kde' not empty so not removed. chmod: /etc/menu-methods/kde: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing kdebase (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: kdebase Thanks, Rich