Sorry to disturb, I use dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq ncurses-bin in root terminal to remove it and now it works fine. Regards On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:43 +0000, Wang Yonghao wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >
