Bandwidthd Will Not let me Uninstall

[ayoalex]

I am trying to update my bandwidthd but it says that i should reinstall it, but when i do that it just throws me an error. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 in case it helps. I am getting really frustrated by this and don't know to fix it because it wont let me uninstall, reinstall, upgrade, or update. Please help me!! Thank you!

[yeats]

Can you post the specific error messages you're getting?

[ayoalex]

This comes up when i click removal:

dpkp: error processing bandwidthd (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.

but in Synaptic it won't let me selected it as mark for re-installation.

[ironic.demise]

try sudo apt-get remove bandwidth

[ayoalex]

Just tried that and got this


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package bandwidth

[ironic.demise]

Just tried that and got this


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package bandwidth
Sorry I meant bandwidthd

sudo apt-get remove bandwidthd
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bandwidthd
sudo apt-get upgrade

Hope helps

[ayoalex]

sorry yeah i wasn't even thinking and just copied what you put into the terminal but any way it STILL didn't work. This is what i got :

when i type in sudo apt-get remove bandwidthd

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package bandwidth
alexander@alexander-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get remove bandwidthd
[sudo] password for alexander:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.32-21
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
bandwidthd
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 201kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: error processing bandwidthd (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
bandwidthd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[yeats]

Try (in a terminal):


sudo apt-get -f install

and see if that helps.

[yeats]

You might also look at this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=500229

[ironic.demise]

sudo apt-get install bandwidthd
sudo apt-get upgrade bandwidthd
sudo apt-get remove bandwidthd

[ironic.demise]

sudo apt-get install bandwidthd
sudo apt-get upgrade bandwidthd
sudo apt-get remove bandwidthd