Synaptic problem uninstalling

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 05/12/05, Carlton <carlton.noles at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had installed a game, Chromium through synaptic. The game doesn't play
> well on my system. When I went to uninstall I get the error message
> 'unable to allocate memory' synaptic did however, remove the data files.
> Now if I unmark it I get the same error as Synaptic tries to reinstall
> the datafiles. I don't want to use the game but I cannot uninstall it or
> reinstall it. Consequently anything I do wish to intall that is
> alphabetically after it doesn't go. How can I get around this?
>
> Carlton

Maybe try from the shell prompt. Open a terminal and try:

sudo apt-get remove chromium

If that doesn't work, have you tried rebooting? Maybe the game, by not
playing well, ate up some memory that wasn't freed?

-Eamonn