mamboknave
September 30th, 2014, 05:28 AM
While trying to clean-up the mess of multiple & unfunctional gnuplot installation (including manual removal of system dirs) something went really wrong to the point that now in the *whole* system I have only these cache files about gnuplot & gnuplot-x11 and NOTHING else:
$ find /* -name "*gnuplot*"
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnuplot-x11_4.4.3-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnuplot-nox_4.4.3-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
I'm with Ubuntu 12.04 and here below there are some more info.
Can some kind soul help me to restore the system for normal operation with Gnuplot?
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If I try to purge, here is the result:
$ sudo apt-get purge gnuplot
$
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package gnuplot is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ sudo apt-get purge gnuplot-x11
$
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnuplot-x11*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,667 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
dpkg: error: cannot read info directory: No such file or directory
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
If I try to install, here is the result:
$ sudo apt-get install gnuplot
$
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
gnuplot-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gnuplot
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,068 B of archives.
After this operation, 21.5 kB of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: error: cannot read info directory: No such file or directory
$ sudo apt-get install gnuplot-x11
$
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gnuplot-x11 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ find /* -name "*gnuplot*"
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnuplot-x11_4.4.3-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnuplot-nox_4.4.3-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
I'm with Ubuntu 12.04 and here below there are some more info.
Can some kind soul help me to restore the system for normal operation with Gnuplot?
================================================== ==========
If I try to purge, here is the result:
$ sudo apt-get purge gnuplot
$
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package gnuplot is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ sudo apt-get purge gnuplot-x11
$
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnuplot-x11*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,667 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
dpkg: error: cannot read info directory: No such file or directory
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
If I try to install, here is the result:
$ sudo apt-get install gnuplot
$
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
gnuplot-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gnuplot
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,068 B of archives.
After this operation, 21.5 kB of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: error: cannot read info directory: No such file or directory
$ sudo apt-get install gnuplot-x11
$
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gnuplot-x11 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.