Re: Broken package: dselect can't istall or deinstall a package

[Helge Hafting]

 Hi,
 
 For about a 2 weeks I'm unable to install the wmaker package. Dselect tell me
 that the package is to much broken and that I should deinstall and when I try
 to deinstall I have the message to reinstall the package. Any idea?

Yes.
dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq wmaker

For help on forcing dpkg to do its job, use dpkg --force-help.
--force-remove-reinstreq will successfully remove a package
that require reinstallation, but there is a warning that this
may seriously damage your installation.  I have used this
myself and had no problems though.  I guess the serious damage
possibilities are mostly theoretical, at least when the 
package concerned isn't important.

Helge Hafting
 

Re: Broken package: dselect can't istall or deinstall a package

[Ed Cogburn]

Mario Bertrand wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 For about a 2 weeks I'm unable to install the wmaker package. Dselect tell me
 that the package is to much broken and that I should deinstall and when I try
 to deinstall I have the message to reinstall the package. Any idea?
 


It would help if we saw the exact error messages.  Have you tried dpkg
itself possibly with one or more of the '--force-xxx' options?  Try
purging the current package with 'dpkg --purge --force-depends
[pkgname]', and then immediately installing the new version.


-- 
Ed C.

Broken package: dselect can't istall or deinstall a package

[Mario Bertrand]

Hi,

For about a 2 weeks I'm unable to install the wmaker package. Dselect tell me
that the package is to much broken and that I should deinstall and when I try
to deinstall I have the message to reinstall the package. Any idea?

Thanks


Message envoyé le 08-Dec-98 à 08:47:48
Par Mario Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Broken package: dselect can't istall or deinstall a package

[Allens]

You could try using dpkg --install youpackage
I have no experience of this, but it might work.

Peter Allen

Mario Bertrand wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 For about a 2 weeks I'm unable to install the wmaker package. Dselect tell me
 that the package is to much broken and that I should deinstall and when I try
 to deinstall I have the message to reinstall the package. Any idea?
 
 Thanks
 
 
 Message envoyi le 08-Dec-98 ` 08:47:48
 Par Mario Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
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