On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > I was walking my gf through an install of Debian (it didn't scare her, > and she's no techie), and everything went fine until she tried > installing some stuff. > > Installing task-x-window-system basically choked, and now she is left > with a bunch of half-installed packages. I can't tinker with it myself > since she is annoyingly located hundreds of miles away from me. > > What is the official correct way to deal with lots of half-installed > packages? > > Also, while I'm asking, if you install a task, what's the quickest and > easiest way to just get rid of everything it installs? She installed a > couple other tasks in tasksel before realizing it would probably be > better to start with a minimal system and apt-get as needed..
I had this happen a couple of times because my apt sources.list file didn't have everything it needed to get the appropiate dependencies. It returned an error and the next time I ran apt-get install it told me to run... apt-get -f install ...with no packages listed. I guess this forces it to complete the install and then you can try to grab the rest of the dependencies. I don't know if this will work for you but good luck. Jesse
