In an effort to clean things up and make sure things are working correctly, I noticed in Synaptic that I had a number of broken packages. Some I was able to fix/delete without problem, but there are two for which I have two entries in the RPM database. I am trying to get rid of the older packages; as far as I know I don't need them. However, here's what happens when I try to delete via apt-get or rpm: Here's where I tried to use apt to do it automatically: [root@dauphin apt]# apt-get --fix-broken install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: iiimf-server#1:11.4-46.1.svn1587 (1:11.4-46.1.svn1587) librsvg2#2.6.4-2 (2.6.4-2) 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 removed and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 558kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Committing changes... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.59395: line 2: gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders: command not found error: %postun(librsvg2-2.6.4-2.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127 error: %postun(iiimf-server-11.4-46.1.svn1587.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 W: Some errors occurred while running transaction So I queried the RPM database to see if it was still holding both: [root@dauphin apt]# rpm -q librsvg2 librsvg2-2.6.4-2 librsvg2-2.9.5-2 So I tried to remove the older: [root@dauphin apt]# rpm -e librsvg2-2.6.4-2 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6046: line 2: gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders: command not found error: %postun(librsvg2-2.6.4-2.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127 And just to see what happens: [root@dauphin apt]# rpm -e librsvg2 error: "librsvg2" specifies multiple packages Any thoughts on what to do? Should I manually edit the RPM database to remove the offending entry, and then somehow manually delete the package from disk? How could I have gotten into this situation anyway? -Don
