[SOLVED] Can't remove phpmyadmin - package install

[a.thomas]

Hey all,

I have been working little by little to get a LAMP server up and running. I have Apache 2 working fine, PHP working fine and MySQL working fine. I wanted to use phpmyadmin.
So I ran

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

Did not work. Then I read that there has to be an include in the apache.conf file:
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

so I added that and it still did not work.

So I decided to uninstall and reinstall thinking it might have been the package I got.

Here is what I get:

sudo apt-get remove phpmyadmin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  phpmyadmin
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 10.3MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 95670 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing phpmyadmin ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute pre-removal script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing phpmyadmin (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 phpmyadmin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So I did a lot of looking on the web and found some things to try such as looking at the phpmyadmin.prerm and phpmyadmin.postrm scripts. The phpmyadmin.postrm was blank and still is. The phpmyadmin.prerm script is blank also.
I didn't think this was correct but couldn't find anything about them.

I have tried:

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq phpmyadmin
(Reading database ... 95670 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing phpmyadmin ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute pre-removal script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing phpmyadmin (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 phpmyadmin

Also tried:

 sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin
apache2: Syntax error on line 300 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf: No such file or directory
   ...fail!
invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action "reload" failed.

This is line 300 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:
Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/

I am really out of ideas. I really just want it to truly go away so I can reinstall it.

Any ideas/suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks AT

[a.thomas]

Anybody?

I am really stuck... someone has to have an idea.

[a.thomas]

Solved my own problem...

[Kolipoki]

Solved my own problem...

I wish I could have helped, but honestly didn't know the answer. Nonetheless, would be great for the community if your solution is posted here. Could help someone -including myself- in the future.

[a.thomas]

Well, after extension searching and finding things I already tried, I went to where the phpmyadmin.prerm, phpmyadmin.postrm, etc scripts where and deleted them manually.

cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/

 ls -l phpmyadmin.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   165 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.conffiles
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   287 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33524 2008-08-06 11:31 phpmyadmin.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51996 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.md5sums
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  3286 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1762 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1762 2008-08-06 09:12 phpmyadmin.postrm.orig
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   339 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.preinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22441 2008-03-05 21:42 phpmyadmin.templates

then I deleted those files

sudo rm -r phpmyadmin.*

then I ran

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get update

I wanted to see if the package was still around, so I ran

sudo apt-get remove phpmyadmin

I got the response that the package was not installed so it couldn't not be removed.

FINALLY!

So from there I just ran

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

and voila! Back to normal.

I hope this does help someone, because I look to Ubuntu forums for a lot of answers.

Thanks,
AT

[Kolipoki]

Well thx, I wish I had those lines some weeks ago.

[a.thomas]

Nobody had any suggestions, so I just made it happen...

[paulochf]

Wow! Thank you!

Yes, it helped someone! =)

[icd*]

add me to that list ofpeople it helped ;D thanks.

[HerixFromParis]

I had a similar problem (though not exactly the same). Bottom line : stuck with a half-baked install of phpmyadmin, couldn't remove it, got bunches of the likes of

/var/lib/dpkg/info/phpmyadmin.postinst: 42: dbc_go: not found

and though I don't perfectly understand the hows and whys of what you did it inspired me and I also removed all the phpmyadmin.* in

/var/lib/dpkg/info/

and thus was able to remove phpmyadmin.

Thanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx !