Re: [Fink-users] dpkg/fink unable to remove/purge broken postgresql-python and -tcl packages

[Alexander K. H. <ha...@ld...>]

Can you remove postgresql (by force if necessary) so that there won't 
be a droplang to complain about the other packages?

On Apr 16, 2004, at 11:57 AM, Kow Kuroda wrote:

>
> On Apr 17, 2004, at 12:53 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
>
>> that should be
>>
>> dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq <package>
>
>
> Even this one gave me the following:
>
> $ sudo dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq postgresql-python-py23
> dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
>  Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
>  reinstall it before attempting a removal.
> (Reading database ... 106195 files and directories currently 
> installed.)
> Removing postgresql-python-py23 ...
> droplang: language "plpython" is not installed in database template1
> dpkg: error processing postgresql-python-py23 (--purge):
>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  postgresql-python-py23
>
>
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