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cynicfm

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From: Warwickshire

Registered: 2018-06-15

Posts: 22  

[solved] Devuan Ceres -> Problematic debian-edu-artwork package

Hey

Whenever i try to install something or delete it seems like i am unable to do that because of that:

root@devuan:/home/filip# apt-get remove debian-edu-artwork
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  debian-edu-artwork
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 212 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 73.7 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 293192 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing debian-edu-artwork (2.11.0.2-2) ...
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for desktop-login-background
dpkg: error processing package debian-edu-artwork (--remove):
 installed debian-edu-artwork package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 2
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
Errors were encountered while processing:
 debian-edu-artwork
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I have no idea how to fix this, anybody can help???

Using devuan ceres

Thanks

Last edited by cynicfm (2020-08-09 02:30:47)

ralph.ronnquist

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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

Posts: 1,251  

Re: [solved] Devuan Ceres -> Problematic debian-edu-artwork package

That looks like a bug with that package, but you might be able to side-step that bug by temporarily making  /usr/bin/update-alternatives be something else... something like

# mv /usr/bin/update-alternatives /usr/bin/update-alternatives.ORIG
# ln -s /bin/true /usr/bin/update-alternatives

then remove debian-edu-artwork

and then restore:

# mv /usr/bin/update-alternatives.ORIG /usr/bin/update-alternatives

cynicfm

Member

From: Warwickshire

Registered: 2018-06-15

Posts: 22  

Re: [solved] Devuan Ceres -> Problematic debian-edu-artwork package

Thanks