apt-get errors

mkoco · 05-10-2009, 12:04 AM

Hi there.

I tried to install rox-desktop from another source, (not the debian archives which I'm using), and it was sort of broken. so I #apt-get remove rox-desktop, and #apt-get autoremove..

but now I get these errors all the time when I use apt-get:

Code:

Processing triggers for menu ...

sh: line 5: /usr/share/rox-menu-method/remove-uninstalled.sh: No such file or directory

sh: line 4: /usr/share/rox-menu-method/update-mimetypes.py: No such file or directory

/tmp/roxmenu: line 5: /usr/share/rox-menu-method/create-app-dir.sh: No such file or directory

/tmp/roxmenu: line 8: /usr/share/rox-menu-method/create-app-dir.sh: No such file or directory

/tmp/roxmenu: line 9: /usr/share/rox-menu-method/create-app-dir.sh: No such file or directory

/tmp/roxmenu: line 10: /usr/share/rox-menu-method/create-app-dir.sh: No such file or directory

/tmp/roxmenu: line 11: /usr/share/rox-menu-method/create-app-dir.sh: No such file or directory

/tmp/roxmenu: line 12: /usr/share/rox-menu-method/create-app-dir.sh: No such file or directory

/tmp/roxmenu: line 15: /usr/share/rox-menu-method/create-app-dir.sh: No such file or directory

/tmp/roxmenu: line 16: /usr/share/rox-menu-method/create-app-dir.sh: No such file or directory

/tmp/roxmenu: line 17: /usr/share/rox-menu-method/create-app-dir.sh: No such file or directory

/tmp/roxmenu: line 20: /usr/share/rox-menu-method/create-app-dir.sh: No such file or directory

All the way down to line 251..
Can someone help me with this? Its very irritating.

jdkaye · 05-10-2009, 01:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enkoan

Hi there.

I tried to install rox-desktop from another source, (not the debian archives which I'm using), and it was sort of broken. so I #apt-get remove rox-desktop, and #apt-get autoremove..

but now I get these errors all the time when I use apt-get:

All the way down to line 251..
Can someone help me with this? Its very irritating.

If you didn't get rox-desktop from a package, you don't use apt-get to remove it. apt-get deals with packages and not things from another source.
cheers,
jdk

baig · 05-10-2009, 03:27 AM

if you have manually installed anything and need to remove it, try this

Code:

sudo dpkg -r <package-installed-previously>

Cheers!!

mpiekarski · 05-10-2009, 07:21 AM

Hi,

I think the following article might help you http://www.linux.com/feature/48910. It covers methods of repairing / recovering from broken package installs.

Thanks!

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mkoco · 05-10-2009, 01:07 PM

thank you much for the replies...
it was indeed a deb package installed, not by hand.
from this source:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/rox4debian

will look at that thread when i have so time.

mkoco · 05-10-2009, 11:29 PM

thread didn't help, but by reading the manpage of 'update-menus' i was able to find the file executing the command that was causing the error, and just comment it out.

problem solved? seems so anyway.