[Wylug-help] apt/dpkg woes

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Dave Fisher wrote:

> 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)

Quit using apt.  Use dpkg and remove the package.

jh

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