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sanduhr package

sanduhr remove problems

Bug #81702 reported by davidc
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
sanduhr (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: sanduhr

Cannot remove the package sanduhr.

Tried everything I could think of, including googling for answers, found 3 others with same problem, but none of the
suggestions worked. In my noobishness I even took a chance with:

sudo apt-get remove --force-yes sanduhr
...
Removing sanduhr ...
/usr/share/omf/sanduhr/sanduhr-C.omf: could not delete file: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 640.
dpkg: error processing sanduhr (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sanduhr
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I hope this means something to someone!
Cheers,
David

Tags: packaging
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Lorenzo J. Lucchini (ljl) wrote :

Confirm in Feisty. Error is:

Removing sanduhr ...
/usr/share/omf/sanduhr: could not delete directory: Directory not empty at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 645.
dpkg: error processing sanduhr (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 39

It is solved by creating a file named /usr/share/omf/sanduhr/sanduhr-C.omf (as the error message of the original poster hints), and then trying removal again.

Changed in sanduhr:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Chris Lasher (chris.lasher) wrote :

In Edgy Eft, you need to also remove the file /usr/share/omf/sanduhr/sanduhr-de.omf.

Or better yet
mv /usr/share/omf/sanduhr/sanduhr-de.omf /usr/share/omf/sanduhr/sanduhr-C.omf

Then you should be able to remove this package.

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abrichr (abrichr) wrote :

I've tried both suggestions and I'm still getting error code (1). Using Feisty Fawn x64.

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ryan (ryan8403) wrote :

To get sanduhr to be removed, you first must

sudo cp /usr/share/omf/sanduhr/sanduhr-de.omf /usr/share/omf/sanduhr/sanduhr-C.omf

then sudo rm /usr/share/omf/sanduhr/sanduhr-de.omf and run sudo apt-get remove sanduhr.

you could also just

sudo mv /usr/share/omf/sanduhr/sanduhr-de.omf /usr/share/omf/sanduhr/sanduhr-C.omf

try running without force yes.

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Koen (koen-beek) wrote :

Hardy has been synced with a new version of sanduhr (1.93-4) which does not seem to have this problem

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

"Fix released" as per comment.

Changed in sanduhr:
assignee: nobody → blueyed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Daniel Hahler (blueyed)
Changed in sanduhr:
assignee: blueyed → nobody
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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