aptitude remove mintdesktop
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mintdesktop
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 127kB will be freed.
(Reading database ... 127691 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mintdesktop ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mintdesktop.prerm: 32: cannot create /etc/gdm/PostLogin/mintDesktop.tmp: Directory nonexistent
dpkg: error processing mintdesktop (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
mintdesktop
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
error while removing mintdesktop
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error while removing mintdesktop
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Re: error while removing mintdesktop
Why are you trying to 'remove' the Mintdesktop?
What are you trying to do 'exactly'? We need more details.
What are you trying to do 'exactly'? We need more details.
Re: error while removing mintdesktop
I just do not need it. Trying to make it as light as possible, removing unneeded services and packages. It's a small programm to configure desktop settings, not metapackage with mint tools..
Re: error while removing mintdesktop
same error
sudo apt-get remove -f mintdesktop
[sudo] password for off220:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mintdesktop
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 127kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 127407 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mintdesktop ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mintdesktop.prerm: 32: cannot create /etc/gdm/PostLogin/mintDesktop.tmp: Directory nonexistent
dpkg: error processing mintdesktop (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
mintdesktop
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
sudo apt-get remove -f mintdesktop
[sudo] password for off220:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mintdesktop
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 127kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 127407 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mintdesktop ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mintdesktop.prerm: 32: cannot create /etc/gdm/PostLogin/mintDesktop.tmp: Directory nonexistent
dpkg: error processing mintdesktop (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
mintdesktop
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)