On Thursday 16 January 2020 12:48:50 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 12:43:17PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Well, it seems it's failing because it tries to enable the php7.3 > > module -- which it can't do, because the module's not THERE. > > > > If it were me, I would attempt to purge this package (not just > > remove), and then reinstall it. > > The --reinstall should have handled that.
But unless its been fixed, that won't work, where the purge then install usually does. Its miss-worked that way since wheezy, here. > > If purging fails because of a2enmod being unable to find the module > > and manipulate it in various ways, then it might be necessary to > > short-circuit the prerm/postinst/etc. scripts so that they do > > nothing, just so you can purge everything. > > > > The normal way to do that with a prerm or postinst script is to > > stick "exit 0" near the top of it. > > That would be a good approach. > > Regards, > > -Roberto Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>