Daniel E. Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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.
Probably "sudo dpkg -r emacs21", or else "sudo -s" and then "dpkg -r emacs21"...forgot that dpkg itself doesn't automatically prompt for password. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
