Oops! I left off the attachments. > > Further to my earlier post: > > > One package, 9menu, is in an unconfigured state because the post install > > script fails. The package is not important it was suggested originally > > as a useful adjunct to the lwm window manager. I can't configure it > > with dpkg --configure because of the script failure and I can't purge it > > with dpkg -P again because of a script failure. How can I remove it? > > Does any one know if the package is faulty from (say) cse.unsw or is it > > more likely that the scripts were corrupted in the download? > > I did a find and discovered the files /var/lib/dpkg/info/9menu.postinst > and /var/lib/dpkg/info/9menu.prerm which I have attached. Can anyone > tell me what is wrong with them? > > > The second problem concerns X. Three packages are listed as ic by > > dpkg --list | less > > they are xbase-clients, xdm and xf86setup. As I understand it i tells > > me that they are to be installed and the c stands for config files but > > what does this mean? Were the packages not downloaded for the lack of > > some config files or were they just not installed? What steps must I > > take to complete the installation? > > It's actually 9 packages now after playing with dselect. An edited > version of the result of doing > dpkg --list > installed.pkgs > is attached. I notice that some of the packages are designated > "3.3.6-11" and some "4.0.1-8". During the upgrade there was some error > message to the effect that xserver-s3 (and some other packages) were > being "held back". > > Should I downgrade the 4.0.1-8 packages to 3.3.6-11 and if so how? > > TIA > > Ken
if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then if [ -d /usr/doc -a ! -e /usr/doc/9menu -a -d /usr/share/doc/9menu ]; then ln -sf ../share/doc/9menu /usr/doc/9menu fi fi
if [ \( "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove" \) -a -L /usr/doc/9menu ]; then rm -f /usr/doc/9menu fi
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ pF 9menu 1.4-10 Creates X menus from the shell. <snip> ic xbase-clients 3.3.6-11 miscellaneous X clients ii xbooks 3.3.6-1 X Window System technical documentation in P ic xdm 3.3.6-11 X display manager ii xext 3.3.6-11 extensions to X servers ic xf86setup 3.3.6-11 X server configuration tools ii xfig 3.2.3.c-4 Facility for Interactive Generation of figur ic xfonts-100dpi 4.0.1-8 100 dpi fonts for X ic xfonts-75dpi 4.0.1-8 75 dpi fonts for X ic xfonts-base 4.0.1-8 standard fonts for X ic xfonts-cyrilli 4.0.1-8 Cyrillic fonts for X ii xfonts-pex 3.3.6-2 fonts for minimal PEX support in X ic xfonts-scalabl 4.0.1-8 scalable fonts for X ii xfree86-common 4.0.1-8 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure ii xlib6g 4.0.1-8 pseudopackage providing X libraries ii xlib6g-dev 4.0.1-8 pseudopackage providing X library developmen ii xlibs 4.0.1-8 X Window System client libraries ii xlibs-dev 4.0.1-8 X Window System client library development f ii xmh 3.3.6-11 X interface to MH mail system ii xmhtml1 1.1.7-5 A Motif widget for display HTML 3.2 ii xnest 3.3.6-11 nested X server ii xproxy 3.3.6-11 X proxy services ii xprt 3.3.6-11 X print server ii xserver-common 4.0.1-8 files and utilities common to all X servers ii xserver-s3 3.3.6-11 X server for S3 chipset-based graphics cards ii xserver-svga 3.3.6-11 X server for SVGA graphics cards ii xserver-vga16 3.3.6-11 X server for VGA graphics cards ii xterm 3.3.6-11 X terminal emulator ic xutils 4.0.1-8 XFree86 utility programs ii xvfb 3.3.6-11 virtual framebuffer X server ii xviddetect 0.3-2.1 XFree86 installation helper ii zlib1g 1.1.3-11 compression library - runtime ii zope 2.1.6-5.2 The Z Object Publishing Environment
