[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Recovering from bad package install

[From: Vladislav Grinchenko]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:58 +0100, Simon Budig wrote:
> Neil Jerram (neil at ossau.uklinux.net) wrote:
> > If I accidentally try to install a package with a preinst or postrm
> > script, it fails as documented at
> > http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_making_an_application_package.html,
> > with an error message about not being able to chroot to
> > /var/lib/install.
> > 
> > My question is: having done this, how can I recover back to a sane
> > state, where I can fix the package and then try installing it again?
> > Nothing that I can think of works, as shown by the transcript appended
> > below.
> 
> For me it helped to remove the preinst and postrm scripts manuall.
> 
> Bye,
>         Simon

You might also need to adjust "Status:" line an offending package in 
/var/lib/install/var/lib/dpkg/status to mark the package as not
installed. 

-Vlad