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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
