Re: manually purge .deb file

From: erchamion.beren@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 09:53:10 -0400

On Monday 01 May 2006 12:34, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

dpkg --purge firefox-1.5.en-us.linux

hello, my previous command was aptitude install libgtk2.0-0 , sorry about
that. here is dpkg --purge result

# dpkg --purge firefox-1.5.en-us.linux
dpkg: error processing firefox-1.5.en-us.linux (--purge):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
firefox-1.5.en-us.linux

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