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

[From: Neil Jerram]

Simon Budig <simon at budig.de> writes:

> 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.

Many thanks, that's done the trick.

     Neil