[Wylug-help] apt/dpkg woes

[Roger Leigh]

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John Hodrien <johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk> writes:

>>   (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.

Agreed.  If none of your filesystems are full, it's possible the prerm
or postrm scripts are borked.  If you look under /var/lib/dpkg/info,
you'll find libvideo-ivtv-perl.foo where foo is one of several things
(preinst|postinst|prerm|postrm|list|md5sums|shlibs).  If necessary,
you can edit the scripts directly to prevent failure, or run them
directly to test.


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