Trying to fix a package install/update

[marc]

marc wrote:

>
> The autokey package failed to update for me yesterday.
>
> Here's the result of aptitude upgrade: http://pastebin.com/m51cde9
>
> The error: ImportError: No module named configobj
> looked like a typical Python issue, so I tried installing
> python-configobj, but that fails: http://pastebin.com/m6f6e7971
>
> Any ideas how to clear this up? I'm happy to purge autokey. Thanks.

Just to say that I had to do a hard uninstall to fix this issue:

1. dpkg --listfiles <package name>
   Delete all listed files

2. Remove package from /var/lib/dpkg/status

3. Remove package from /var/lib/dpkg/available

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Best,
Marc

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