Re: apt & dselect failure to remove mozilla *solved*

2002-11-23 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 November 2002 10:17 am, you wrote: > Hello: > > I was unable to get mozilla to run. It did not complain when I attempted > to launch from an xterm, nor did it run. I finally decided to remove > mozilla and its parts and reinstall it.

Re: apt & dselect failure to remove mozilla

2002-11-23 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > When a post-removal script fails, none of dpkg, dselect, or apt-get will > help. Instead, you need to inspect /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-psm.postrm > (the script that's failing in this case), and either tweak the system so > that it succeeds or comm

Re: apt & dselect failure to remove mozilla

2002-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:07:54PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > On Thursday 21 November 2002 10:17 am, you wrote: [...] > > Removing mozilla-psm ... > > Updating mozilla chrome registry...ln: creating symbolic link > > `/usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/overlayinfo' > > to `/var/lib/mozilla/chrome/ove

Re: apt & dselect failure to remove mozilla

2002-11-23 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 November 2002 10:17 am, you wrote: > Hello: > > I was unable to get mozilla to run. It did not complain when I attempted > to launch from an xterm, nor did it run. I finally decided to remove > mozilla and its parts and reinstall it.

Re: apt & dselect failure to remove mozilla

2002-11-23 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls said: > Hello: > > I was unable to get mozilla to run. It did not complain when I attempted to > launch from an xterm, nor did it run. I finally decided to remove mozilla > and its parts and reinstall it. That is where I ran into problems. Dur

apt & dselect failure to remove mozilla

2002-11-23 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello: I was unable to get mozilla to run. It did not complain when I attempted to launch from an xterm, nor did it run. I finally decided to remove mozilla and its parts and reinstall it. That is where I ran into problems. During the reinstal