On Jun 12, 2010, at 6:40 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > You will probably get the same complaint from apt-get whenever you > ask it to do *anything*. It just refuses to work as long as it feels > something is unclean in its database. dpkg is much less inhibited, > you can use it to --remove --force-all whatever you wish. > > OTOH, the complaint seems to indicate among other things that xml- > parser-pm588 is not installed, at least not according to apt-get. I > don't know if apt-get or apt-cache can give you more detailed > information, but "dpkg -l" will. >
It is installed, from fink list --installed: i xml-parser-pm588 2.36-2 Perl ext interface to XML parser/expat and from dpkg -l ri xml-parser-pm588 2.36-2 Perl ext interface to XML parser/expat In the end I was able to remove it one package at the time: $ fink remove intltool40 $ fink remove xml-parser-pm588 - Koen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel