<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2007-24-01 at 19:00 +0700, Chanchao wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> And that's it... I'm stuck. Also Automatic Updates don't work anymore. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> I had this problem with llvm under Edgy. Partially uninstalled and then cakked. In this case it was under removing a file type association where the program in question puked because it didn't know that type. My "solution"? First I moved the program out of the way and replaced it with a do-nothing script that just returned a happy, shiny error code of 0. Then I used apt-get --purge remove package name to get rid of dependencies. (The package in question was still borked after this, but all packages depending on it got removed.) After that I used dpkg with the "force everything" option (can't remember what it is off the top of my head and I'm too lazy to open the CLI to find it, sorry. <IMG SRC="cid:1169640962.3572.3.camel@localhost.localdomain" ALIGN="middle" ALT=";)" BORDER="0">) to get rid of the package once and for all. Finally I restored the file type association program back to where it was supposed to be and ran synaptic, telling it to fix any broken packages. It was all in all a pain in the ass. Oh. And I forgot the most important step. I call it "step 0": I backed up my system first. <IMG SRC="cid:1169640998.3572.5.camel@localhost.localdomain" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":D" BORDER="0"> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Michael T. Richter Email: ttmrichter@gmail.com, mtr1966@hotpop.com MSN: ttmrichter@hotmail.com, mtr1966@hotmail.com; YIM: michael_richter_1966; AIM: YanJiahua1966; ICQ: 241960658; Jabber: mtr1966@jabber.cn "[Blacks] ... are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind." --Thomas Jefferson </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>