[Wylug-help] apt/dpkg woes

[Dave Fisher]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:37:59PM +0000, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Dave Fisher wrote:
>
> >Every error I've had seems to lead back to errors in the "files list for
> >package `libvideo-ivtv-perl'".  I got libvideo-ivtv-perl from an unofficial
> >repository and had enough difficulty configuring it, to have doubts about
> >the
> >code/packaging quality.
>
> So why haven't you uninstalled libvideo-ivtv-perl?

err? didn't I say that I had tried and failed to do that in my original
message?

All the variations I tried of apt-get remove produced exactly the same
errors as I get from apt-get install, i.e.

   (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing libvideo-ivtv-perl (--purge):
   failed in buffer_read(fd): files list for package `libvideo-ivtv-perl': Invalid argument
   Errors were encountered while processing:
   libvideo-ivtv-perl
   Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
   E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Dave