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

[Adam Davin]

Hello All,

This is a little late, but I ran into some problems with apt-get install
<pkg>; apt-get remove <pkg> when I was trying to get something to work.
Silly me I was cleaning up the directory tree and found some directories
that I thought should have been removed so I deleted them ...

On re-installation of <pkg> I found that necessary config files were missing
and that apt doesn't automagically put these in if they are missing because
as far as it is concerned they are still there...

thats when I found dpkg --force-help options. I mananged to use
the --force-confmiss (?) to write any config files that were missing ...

HTH

Adam.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig at postnewspapers.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 2 August 2002 3:37 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] When apt-get just wont apt-get
>
>
> > 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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> Craig Ringer
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