Help! Last week while trying to install openoffice my drive ran out of space and the install failed. I tried to remove openoffice but it says I should try reinstalling it.
========== whitestar:~# apt-get remove openoffice.org Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package openoffice.org is not installed, so not removed The following packages will be REMOVED: openoffice.org-bin 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-bin (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: openoffice.org-bin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ========== I added a new hard drive but I can't use the drive until I install debian on it. to do that I think I need to create a custom install CD. I want to install debian-cd and debootstrap but apt-get debian-cd is trying to install openoffice! ========= whitestar:~# apt-get install debian-cd Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: debootstrap grep-dctrl openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en sysutils Suggested packages: palo openoffice.org-help ooqstart-gnome oooqs-kde cupsys-bsd ttf-bitstream-vera prelink openoffice.org-hyphenation-en openoffice.org-help-en Recommended packages: hfsutils openoffice.org-mimelnk The following NEW packages will be installed: debian-cd debootstrap grep-dctrl openoffice.org openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en sysutils The following packages will be upgraded: openoffice.org-bin 1 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 58.1MB of archives. After unpacking 183MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]n ======== How do I stop apt-get from trying to install openoffice? :( jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]