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Re: [LUG] Debian Sarge: trying to remove gaim

 

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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