Thanks for everyones help.... i managed to fix my problem by going into 
dselect and forcing it purge everything about libpisock3. It wasnt pretty 
=]


.Chris

> 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@postnewspapers.com.au]
> > Sent: Friday, 2 August 2002 3:37 PM
> > To: plug@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?
> >
> > --
> > Craig Ringer
> > GPG Key Fingerprint: AF1C ABFE 7E64 E9C8 FC27  C16E D3CE CDC0 0E93 380D
> > 	-- if it ain't broke, add features 'till it is. (or:)
> > 	while (! broken) { features ++ ; broken = isBroken(features) }
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 

