On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:06:38PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: > Hi all > > How do I remove or tell Debina that I dont have a package installed? > Last week I installed (sort of) libapache-mod-security > There were probs at the configure stage as the package has install bugs so > I wish to get rif of it. > > I tried to remove it but the post remove script failed so I probably don't > have the package installed: > $ dpkg -L libapache-mod-security > Package `libapache-mod-security' does not contain any files (!) > $ > > But when I go to upgrade it thinks the package is still there. > > ~$ sudo apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libapache-mod-security: Depends: mod-security-common (= 1.8.7-1) but it is > not installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. > > Here is where I try to remove it: > > $ sudo apt-get --purge remove libapache-mod-security > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > libapache-mod-security* > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 52 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. > After unpacking 123kB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > (Reading database ... 91816 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing libapache-mod-security ... > / > / > dpkg: error processing libapache-mod-security (--purge): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 128 > Errors were encountered while processing: > libapache-mod-security > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > -- > Mike Lake
Look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache-mod-security.prerm and .postrm Do 'manually' scripts if needed. rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache-modsecurity.*rm dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends libapache-mod-security -- Chiron -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
