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problem ragarding apt-get upgrade

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tr64
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Re: problem ragarding apt-get upgrade

#41 Post by tr64 »

thanks a lot.
I certainly won't be needing any server use for debian.
I executed your last code.it was very similar to yours.
the problem is bypassed and NOT SOLVED.
but thank u all for helping me.
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Re: problem ragarding apt-get upgrade

#42 Post by kiyop »

fireExit wrote:this is a nuclear solution and you should only apply it if you really don't need that package:

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cd /var/lib/dpkg/info

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rm ldap-account-manager.*

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dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq ldap-account-manager
basically what you are doing is removing the package's files manually.

after this, dist-upgrade should complete without error.
tr64 wrote:Thanks a lot. the error is gone for good.
Thank fireExit for telling nice commands to remove the broken package :)
Congratulations on tr64's success :)

Have you executed

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apt-get update
apt-get -s autoremove
to see what packages can be removed?
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tr64
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Re: problem ragarding apt-get upgrade

#43 Post by tr64 »

Once again,Thank you all.

root@zx:/home/qwerty# apt-get -s autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@zx:/home/qwerty#

apparently nothing can be removed

serandrzej
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Re: problem ragarding apt-get upgrade

#44 Post by serandrzej »

I guess, you have solved the problem by now somehow, in which case I post it just for posterity and out of gratitude to a.thomas, because the issue was giving me a lot of headache and headscratching,
and also in case someone comes up with ideas how to fully fix the issue. I found this post:

https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index. ... 81086.html

and thanks to the author I managed at least to get rid of ldap-acoount-manager and be able to run regular upgrade.
admittedly, unlike in the original solution, I failed to reinstall ldap-account-manager because once reinstalled, it was already "in a mess" and in "half-installed" status.
ps.
I run debian 8 jessie oldstable on asus X102BA - if this can be helpful for further analysing why reinstallation failed.

ps 2
err.. I've just realised that my posts don't add up too much, and are helpful only to the point of removing lam. I got slightly lost in the multitude of threads abt the issue at hand, and beside the solution herein didn't quite work for me, and this in turn is probably because I might have messed up sth in the procedure or sequence of commands etc. my apologies. I dont remove my posts myself, after all they describe a bit different approach, however feel free to delete them if you find it necessary.
Last edited by serandrzej on 2018-04-07 17:17, edited 2 times in total.

serandrzej
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Re: problem ragarding apt-get upgrade

#45 Post by serandrzej »

I feel obliged to make a small update and quote original post, just in case someone might complain about "link-only" answers:
Well, after extension searching and finding things I already tried, I went to where the phpmyadmin.prerm, phpmyadmin.postrm, etc scripts where and deleted them manually.


cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/

ls -l phpmyadmin.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.conffiles
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 287 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33524 2008-08-06 11:31 phpmyadmin.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51996 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.md5sums
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3286 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1762 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1762 2008-08-06 09:12 phpmyadmin.postrm.orig
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 339 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.preinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22441 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.templates

then I deleted those files

sudo rm -r phpmyadmin.*

then I ran

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get update

I wanted to see if the package was still around, so I ran

sudo apt-get remove phpmyadmin

I got the response that the package was not installed so it couldn't not be removed.

FINALLY!

So from there I just ran

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
and I ran these commands:
#cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/
#ls -l ldap*
#sudo rm -r ldap*
#ls -l ldap*
#sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
#sudo apt-get remove -f ldap-account-manager
and source again:
https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index. ... 81086.html

as said, it work for me, after that I was able to remove, but not install, the problematic package (ldap-account-manager in my case)

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