mis-installation of package

[Sean Sieger]

Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> writes:

    Isn't part of the error output (at the end) something like "dpkg was
    disrupted, run 'dpkg --configure -a' to fix it"?

    Anway, you can try that (with sudo)

    Post the full error output if it does not help. (copy/paste from the
    terminal)

sean at g41r2f1:~$ sudo aptitude remove gtypist gettext
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gettext gtypist 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 10.2MB will be freed.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 124963 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gettext ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing gettext (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Removing gtypist ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing gtypist (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gettext
 gtypist
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      
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done