hi daniel,

i did what you said to remove the package but it shows this:

Removing currently installed version of 'amsn'.
This may take a moment, please wait ... failed
FAIL: Package amsn was not found.

do i have to be in a specific folder to execute the command?

thanks a lot for you help :)

eleanna

On Nov 26, 11:59 am, "Daniel Eggleston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes.  You installed the autopackage version of amsn.  I think the way to
> remove this is to run 'sudo package remove amsn'.  Once that's done, run
> 'sudo apt-get install amsn', and you'll install a working version directly
> from the ubuntu repositories.  You can open up the Synaptic Package Manager,
> and click search to look for any package. If you search for amsn, it should
> show up and you can click to install it (no websurfing / remembering where
> to download :)
>
> The reason amsn doesn't show up in dpkg's list is that you installed it
> through autopackage, and dpkg cannot be aware of those installations.
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Eleanna Skouta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I followed the installation instructions of amsn for ubuntu as
> > described in the site:
> >http://www.amsn-project.net/linux-downloads.php#AP
>
> > It worked fine.
>
> > Then I tried to move the amsn folder to another folder and i deleted
> > the amsn-0.97.2-1.tcl85.x86.package and i ruined everything.
>
> > I downloaded again the amsn-....package from the website but I cannot
> > install it. Something is wrong.
>
> > I listed all the installed packages but the amsn-....package is not in
> > the list.
> > dpkg --list | grep 'package-name'
>
> > Do you have any idea on what can be wrong?
>
> > Thank you.
>
> > Eleanna
>
> --
>
>           Daniel
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