Robert T Wyatt wrote:
> Martin Costabel wrote:
>   
>> Robert T Wyatt wrote:
>> []
>>     
>>> No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
>>> install-info(/sw/share/info/accounting.info): unable to determine 
>>> description for `dir' entry - giving up
>>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing acct (--configure):
>>>   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>>       
>> This account.info file from acct is indeed rotten. Looking at cvs logs, 
>> it seems to me that this package has been dead since May 2003 in the 
>> days of 10.2, but for some reason the corpse hasn't been buried but 
>> carried over to all subsequent Fink releases. I wonder if any of those 
>> who copied and renamed its info file in the CVS repository ever tried to 
>> install it.
>>     
>
>
>   
You'll have to go to the dpkg level:  fink is even blinder to partial 
package installs than is apt-get.  "sudo dpkg --purge acct" should do it

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink User Liason/Documenter
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