I am running XFree86 Version 4.4.0 on Debian with 2.6.3 kernel. I cannot install anything using apt without getting this error. Everything I try to install says it is going to remove xfonts-scalable, and using "apt-get remove xfonts-scalable" doesn't work either.


buddha:/home/jimmy# apt-get remove xfonts-scalable
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xfonts-scalable
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 71 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 1384kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 53564 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xfonts-scalable ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-removal script: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing xfonts-scalable (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
xfonts-scalable
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

OK. I uncommented my testing sources in my sources.list and did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" Now I get some different error (which, by the way, is the original error I was getting before I started tinkering with stuff)

buddha:/home/jimmy# apt-get install xfonts-scalable
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
xfonts-scalable is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up xfonts-scalable (4.2.1-12.1) ...
Running update-fonts-scale in Speedo font directory...done.
Running update-fonts-dir in Speedo font directory...done.
Running xftcache in Speedo font directory...Can't scan directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
dpkg: error processing xfonts-scalable (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
xfonts-scalable
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)