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Many apologies: problem solved. I was backing up my hard-drive and was storing the backup in /backup. I ran out of space on hda1.... Anyway have removed gaim, reinstalled it, (tried to run it and again it segfaulted), have removed the thing Have installed centericq... On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:16:51PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > On Friday 03 February 2006 9:56 pm, Henry Bremridge wrote: > > However: > > 1/ Apt-get remove gaim doesn't > > Not because of a problem with the gaim package, I suspect you would get > exactly the same problem installing or removing any package at the moment. > You need to fix the dpkg error first. > > What happens if you use: > # apt-get -f install > > If that completes without errors, try installing libgpgme11 again (yes, > install, not remove) and it that completes OK (or reports it is up to date), > return again to your other (unrelated) apt-get tasks. > > > The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems > > configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using > > dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect: > > libgpgme11 GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy > > > > When I run dpkg --configure libgpgme11, then I get the error > > message "subprocess post-installation script returned error > > exit status 1" > > OK, that's the very, very last line. The actual bug is somewhere above that > line. > :-) > > > When I try dpkg --remove gaim then I get the same error > > message as above "subprocess ...etc etc" > > You'll continue to get the same until the last dpkg instruction (gpgme) is > completed. Installing or removing any package will raise the error. > > > - How do I find out what other programs rely on libgpgme11: or how do > > I configure it > > If apt-get -f install (the -f is vital) doesn't solve it, try installing > libgpgme11 (yes, install - remove will probably require the removal of > working packages that you actually want to retain). Then watch the errors > carefully and find out where libgpgme11 is *really* failing. >
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