[ale] Any debian experts? How do I forcibly remove something that isn't installed.

[Jim]

Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
> What does the command : "dpkg -l | grep libapache2" show you?
dpkg -l | grep libapache2
rH  libapache2-mod 0.5-1          Filter and reject incoming client requests
ii  libapache2-mod 2.0.4-3        Apache 2.0 connector for the Tomcat 
Java ser
ii  libapache2-mod 1.999.21-1     Integration of perl with the Apache2 
web ser
ii  libapache2-mod 4.3.10-16      server-side, HTML-embedded scripting 
languag
ii  libapache2-mod 3.1.3-3        An Apache module that embeds Python 
within t
ii  libapache2-mod 3.1.3-3        An Apache 2 module that embeds Python 
2.3 wi
ii  libapache2-mod 2.2.1-1        XMLRPC Server module for Apache2 web 
server

The first line is probably the culprit, even though the name is truncated.

Jim.
//
>
> Thus spake Jim (ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com):
>
>   
>> I tried to install a package that needed a newer version of libc.  It 
>> didn't install but now something appears to be hosed.  No matter what I 
>> try to install, remove etc, I get the following message.
>>
>> Removing libapache2-mod-ifier ...
>> This module is already disabled, or does not exist!
>> dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-ifier (--remove):
>>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  libapache2-mod-ifier
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>> I've tried using --purge --force-all, --remove --force-all on dpkg but 
>> it says it isn't there.  The message above came from an apt-get install 
>> foo command.
>>
>> How do I fix the database, any idea?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jim.
>>     
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