Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade
Mark Komarinski
mkomarinski at wayga.org
Sun May 10 19:26:54 EDT 2015
> On May 10, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> […]
> There is some sort of directory issue, which generates an error message
> if I attempt to apt-get remove octave3.2-info.
> I think, if I can remove or delete this file (and remove references to
> it) perhaps the rest of the install will go through. This, of course
> sound 'dangerous' but I have run out of ideas.
>
> Any suggestions? apt-get -f install returns the error message. apt-get
> remove returns the same error. Looking for a few ideas. I'll try to use
> some of them tonight to attempt a fix. Got to visit Mom now...
What’s the error message? You might be able to force-remove that one package (dpkg -r —force-all octave3.2-info) and ignore dependencies and then continue on. Can’t guarantee it’ll work, but it sounds like it won’t make the system any unusable than it is now...
-Mark
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