[nmglug] More on Upgrading

[BrianO'Keefe]

Well it's taken a while and I finally got back to beating this into 
submission. The --force options didn't work, couldn't reinstall package 
(which didn't even function at all) couldn't upgrade nor remove through 
synaptic.
I finally downloaded a .bin file of an old helix-player from 2005 and 
installed that. That actually didn't do anything to help except that I 
saw the files dpkg was looking for had been installed by the .bin 
installer into a different directory, e.g. usr/local/HelixPlayer as 
opposed to /usr/lib/helix/player. I made symlinks to the newly installed 
old files that dpkg complained ablut and tried a --force remove. I only 
got one error so one of the links worked.
I wondered if dpkg could actually tell what was in the files or if it 
just wanted to remove them regardless of the content so made dummy files 
and placed them where dpkg was bitching about them not existing and 
spewing the errors.
It worked! dpkg was fooled, it happily removed the dummy files and went 
on to remove helix-player.
I just finished updating and tomorrow I'll do a dist-upgrade...
Persistence is the mother of ....?

Mark Galassi wrote:
>     okeefe> It seems that the helix-player package is a mess of a
>     okeefe> problem.I tried installing a new version .deb and the same
>     okeefe> exact error. finally tried a force remove and same error:
>
> Have you tried to go medieval on the force options?  Possibly
> --force-all
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