I want to install mercurial-server, so I did:
dpkg -i /Users/michael/Downloads/mercurial-server_1.0.1-1.1_all.deb
however this install had failed and now it's in an indeterminate state.
Neither can I install debconf(which should help me, right?) because of
"inconsistent dependencies".
I've tried
sudo dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq mercurial-server
and
dpkg -i /Users/michael/Downloads/mercurial-server_1.0.1-1.1_all.deb
again but neither help me out of this state with this package. I am
completely stuck! Any suggestions?
here are some samples of what I've tried:
sidha% fink install debconf
Information about 3559 packages read in 0 seconds.
fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The
candidates:
(1) debconf-english: small footprint English-only debconf
(2) debconf-i18n: full internationalization support for debconf
Pick one: [1]
fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The
candidates:
(1) locale-gettext-pm5100: Perl module for string internationalization
(2) text-iconv-pm5100: The iconv() character set conversion function
Pick one: [1]
The following package will be installed or updated:
debconf
The following 13 additional packages will be installed:
anacron daemonic debconf-english findutils libgettext3-dev libxml2
libxml2-bin libxml2-shlibs locale-gettext-pm5100 pkgconfig po-debconf
readline5 readline5-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Reading buildlock packages...
Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies!
Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely. You may be able to
fix things by running:
fink scanpackages
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libgettext3-dev=0.14.5-2
Failed: Fink::SysState: Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies
sidha% sudo apt-get update
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
sidha% sudo apt-get install libgettext3-dev=0.14.5-2
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: The package mercurial-server needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
archive for it.
sidha% dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq mercurial-server
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
sidha% sudo !!
sudo dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq mercurial-server
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
(Reading database ... 5821 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mercurial-server ...
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/mercurial-server.postrm: line 7:
/usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing mercurial-server (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mercurial-server
sidha%
sidha% dpkg -i /Users/michael/Downloads/mercurial-server_1.0.1-1.1_all.deb
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
sidha% sudo !!
sudo dpkg -i /Users/michael/Downloads/mercurial-server_1.0.1-1.1_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package mercurial-server.
(Reading database ... 5788 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mercurial-server 1.0.1-1.1 (using
.../mercurial-server_1.0.1-1.1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mercurial-server ...
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/mercurial-server.postrm: line 7:
/usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory
dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: line 7: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No
such file or directory
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing
/Users/michael/Downloads/mercurial-server_1.0.1-1.1_all.deb (--install):
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: line 7: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No
such file or directory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/Users/michael/Downloads/mercurial-server_1.0.1-1.1_all.deb
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