Re: [Hampshire] removing a broken pakage.

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] removing a broken pakage.

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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x56b95100.hantslug.org.uk.2458': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Thu Mar 8 12:15:54 2007 GMT
gpg: using DSA key B2C27BC21C335860
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:50:34PM -0600, Mike Burrows wrote:
> marvin:/home/testermike/brother# export COLUMNS=100; dpkg -l | grep mfc240
> iFR mfc240ccupswrapper       1.0.0-9             Brother CUPS PTouch 
> Printer Definitions
> ii  mfc240clpr                          1.0.0-9             Brother lpr 
> Inkjet Printer Definitions

>
> this is what I got when trying to remove the above files
>
> marvin:/home/testermike/brother# dpkg -r iFR mfc240ccupswrapper-1.0.0-9


This is pretty much wrong in every respect. :)

First, iFR are the flags indicating the package status. Secondly,
the name of the package is mfc240ccupswrapper, not
mfc240ccupswrapper-1.0.0-9. So the fact that it can't find
mfc240ccupswrapper-1.0.0-9 is hardly surprising.

> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove ifr which isn't installed.
> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove mfc240ccupswrapper-1.0.0-9
> which isn't installed.


Try:

dpkg --remove mfc240ccupswrapper

as root instead.

Hugo.

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