Hi All, I am new to N800 and added some repositories in my n800 following the information in this page: http://maemo.org/community/wiki/applicationrepositories/ One package I installed "ncurses-bin" is not properly installed (maybe network problem) it shows red icon and exclamation mark from application manager and only have 0KB. I tried to ssh into N800 use following command: ----------------------------------------------------- apt-get remove ncurses-bin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ncurses-bin WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! ncurses-bin 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 21 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. You are about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' ?] Yes, do as I say! dpkg: error processing ncurses-bin (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: ncurses-bin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ----------------------------------------------------------- It seems ask me to install it again, then I tried the following -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nokia-N800-39:~# apt-get install ncurses-bin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded: ncurses-bin 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/140kB of archives. After unpacking 414kB of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! ncurses-bin Install these packages without verification [y/N]? Y Selecting previously deselected package ncurses-bin. (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `ncurses-bin' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 16501 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ncurses-bin 5.5-1mh2 (using .../ncurses-bin_5.5-1mh2_armel.deb) ... mv: cannot rename '/usr/bin/clear': No such file or directory Leaving diversion unchanged Unpacking replacement ncurses-bin ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-bin_5.5-1mh2_armel.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/clear', which is also in package busybox dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) BusyBox v1.4.1 (2007-03-12 19:00:25 EET) multi-call binary Usage: mv [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST or: mv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY dpkg-divert: Unknown diversion dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-bin_5.5-1mh2_armel.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Nokia-N800-39:~# -------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone can help me to correct this problem, many thanks Y.Wang
