[plug] When apt-get just wont apt-get

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Fri Aug 2 15:37:04 WST 2002


> Apt-get tells me i cant remove it because its not installed. Same with
> dpkg. I have however purged evolution but for some reason apt-get remembers
> it and wont let me install or remove anything until i fix the libpisock3 issue.

Can you post the exact output from apt? That sounds weird. Occasionally 
though I've had to apt-get install <brokenpkg> then dpkg --purge 
<brokenpkg> to fix things, maybe try that?

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