Synaptic problem - "The package jedit needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it"

[Marius Hanganu]

Oh, I only got your message now. So it seems we both got to the same
conclusion. I'm a little surprised noone on this list had this problem
before - or perhaps the people who know the answers didn't have the time to
write back.

Regards,
Marius Hanganu

On 8/10/06, Marius Hanganu <hanganum at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I finally got it working.
>
> Apt doesn't help too much here.
>
> What I did instead was:
>
> "dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq jedit"
>
> Which finally removed jedit and synaptic was back again.
>
> Regards,
> Marius Hanganu
>
> On 8/10/06, bigken <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > only thing of I can think of  is to  try *
> > sudo apt-get remove jedit*
> > or*
> > sudo aptitude purge jedit*
> > in the terminal sorry I cant help you anymore
> >
> >
> > take a look at this thread
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/nkct9
> >
> >
> > --
> > bigken
> >
> > --
> > ubuntu-users mailing list
> > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> >
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20060810/635ce55d/attachment-0001.html>