How to fix broken synaptic updates: "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state"
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I have a Dell Mini9 running Ubuntu 8.10. One day I had the bright idea to see if I could install a LAMP stack. I had trouble installing MySQL 5.0. I don't recall the error, but ever since all attempts to run update-manager, synaptic, or apt-get fails with an error about mysql-server-5.0: "Package i…
Error Output
apt-get remove mysql-server-5.0
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None of the other answers worked for me on Maverick. In my case, I found this worked: (replacing "flashplugin-nonfree" with the name of the broken package, and replacing "prerm" with the type of script that failed - in my case it was "postrm", the p…
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