Topic: What to do when you can't install or uninstall WICD (guide)
I got into this very odd problem when I messed up and selected yes to keep one of old version scripts...
Well since all scripts other than that one was new, it completely broke WICD.
Normally I would just uninstall and reinstall to fix such a problem but in this case...
I was little scared when it couldn't get uninstalled! Even more mysterious... overwriting install won't work either...
It took me a while.. (Yes, I'm not Linux guru..
) but solution were pretty simple. I found some guys suggestion of removing a file /var/lib/dpkg/info/wicd.prerm, then uninstalled it.
Orginially I had second step of manually removing wicd, but see below for much easier method for next step...
By la3875:
"Second, open Synaptic ... and search for wicd and mark for complete removal and apply change"
Hope this helps someone! ![]()
Update: Changed step 2 to la3875's easier method.
Last edited by Iare Tosevite (2008-10-16 08:55:54)