Stuck package in sptitude

Art Alexion art.alexion at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 18:48:39 UTC 2008


On Monday 17 November 2008 1:18:24 pm Wulfy wrote:
> Art Alexion wrote:
> > I assume you have tried 'sudo aptitude -f install'?
> >
> >
> >
> >  
>
> Yes, I had.  This is the result:
>
> wulfy at wulfy-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude -f install
> [sudo] password for wulfy:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initialising package states... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   ttf-mathematica4.1{p}
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 106kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
> (Reading database ... 109318 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing ttf-mathematica4.1 ...

> . 
> dpkg: error processing ttf-mathematica4.1 (--purge):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  ttf-mathematica4.1
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initialising package states... Done

Can you get another deb and try installing it locally?

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