Installing all octave-forge packages in one shot

Installing all octave-forge packages in one shot

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Someone just posted this on the octave-forge mailing list. I believe that's what you were looking for:

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Originally Posted by octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net Hi, I just had to install all of the octave-forge packages on an Ubuntu 10.04 system and it turned out that the packages are not available via aptitude. The command Code: sudo aptitude install $(aptitude search ?description\(octave-forge\) | awk '{print $2}') finally did the job. Maybe someone could put this in the Debian installation guide for other users that might come across this problem. Best,

Corrupted package

Corrupted package

I tryed to install skype but it gave me an error. i tryed to install it again but it said that i have another application running, since i didn't have any i tryed to go in terminal and remove skype using apt-get but at every command i put into apt-get i get:
E: The package skype needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

Synaptic gives me the same error, the default add/remove doesn't have skype in that list.

So basically i can't install anything using apt-get/Synaptic or reinstall sype.

Is there a way to manually delete skype?

Problem solved, i did:

Code:

 sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq skype

The package needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it

The package needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it

We have all come across this error sometime.

Luckily there is an easy fix, just run this command:

dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq Packagename

Substitute Packagename with the real name, e.g pidgin-ppa

:)

Package Installation error and solution

Some times you might see the following error message when you try to install any package using apt-get or synaptic
E: The package webmin needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it.
E: The package mfc8500lpr needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it.
This error might be with any package in the above examples webmin and mfc8500lpr packages this error mostly occour when you try to install a debian package in to ubuntu system
Error
E: The package package name needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it.
Package name in the above error could be any package
Solution
Run the following command
For webmin Pakage
dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq webmin
You can replace webmin to any of your package name which is giving the error

The package jedit needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it

August 10th, 2006 by Marius Hanganu in Tools I tried installing the .deb package for jedit. Big mistake :-). Not only that Ubuntu refused installing it, but it also brought my synaptic into an incosistent state: every time I started synaptic I was getting this error:

The package jedit needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it

and then no package was displayed. One of the reasons I like Linux (Ubuntu) over Windows is apt and the synaptic interface. Imagine my desolation.
I tried various “apt-get remove jedit”, clean, autoclean options. No luck. Neither the guys on Ubuntu mailing list could help me out here. Tried removing it using dpkg and I got

dpkg: error processing jedit (--purge):

Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before

attempting a removal.

Errors were encountered while processing: jedit

But I finally got it working. This command forced the removal of my incosistent jedit package:

dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq jedit

 

Update: after I managed to fix it and post this entry, I was finally pointed on ubuntu users mailing list to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=232849&highlight=jedit. Phew! lots of replies before the author figured the answer for himself.