On jeudi, avril 25, 2002, at 05:19 , Chris Devers wrote: > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Holger Schulz wrote: > >> So I tried to get rid of that audiofile package. >> [] >> dpkg: Abh?igkeitsproblem verhindert das L?en von audiofile: >> esound h?t ab von audiofile.
"esound depends on audiofile" Holger, you should change the Terminal preferences to ISO Latin1 string encoding. Otherwise every Umlaut eats 2 or 3 following characters. People not speaking German might have difficulties to see that "L?en" is "L�schen" and "h?t" is "h�ngt" :-) > Isn't there a way to force-remove a package? I thought I'd seen people > mention this, but 'fink --info' doesn't mention it and neither does the > mapage. Seems like if you could forcibly remove the package, then > drop in > a replacement, nothing (hopefully) will break in the process. dpkg --remove --force-depends audiofile would do it. But the problem is deeper. Holger won't be able to unpack the replacement, because he wasn't able to do so in the first place: > On jeudi, avril 25, 2002, at 05:01 , Holger Schulz wrote: [] > dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin- > powerpc/sound/audiofile_0.2.3-4_darwin-powerpc.deb > dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von > /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin- > powerpc/sound/audiofile_0.2.3-4_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install): > konnte Paket-Infodatei �/sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control� nicht > zum Lesen ?en: No such file or directory "could not open /sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control". This is a problem that several people had in the last few days. AFAIK it is not yet resolved. It seems to be related to "tar -zxvf" not working at all. Here dpkg is not able to unpack the *.deb file correctly. Probably something to do with gzip and one of its libraries like libintl or libiconv, but this is pure speculation. Could be file permissions, too. A complete reinstallation of Fink from the binary installer was the only thing reported on the lists that helped. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
