Ingo Thies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
>> If you're concerned, go ahead and stop Fink Commander, and then try running 
>> "dpkg -l emacs21" in a terminal window.  That will tell you what the status 
>> of the package really is.  It may have been removed and Fink Commander just 
>> got lost in updating its table.
>
> I finally stopped the process and got the following message from dpkg:
>
> dpkg -l emacs21
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
>|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> uppercase=bad)
>||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  emacs21        21.2-1026      Flexible real-time text editor, v21.2 
> with X
>
> It seems that indeed something has gone wrong. Any ideas how to fix it 
> (except from removing it manually)?

Um, removing it manually is probably the easiest and most direct
method. FinkCommander calls fink, fink calls apt, apt calls dpkg?
Yuck--just try "dpkg -r emacs21" and cut out the middle-men. Bonus:
you're more likely to get relevant (or *any*) error or warning
messages this way.

dan

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