ryan@rkavanagh:~/deb$ sudo aptitude remove python2.3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages have been automatically kept back:
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-6-386 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-6-686
The following packages have been kept back:
alsa-base alsa-source banshee dbus dbus-1-utils fglrx-control fglrx-kernel-source kprof libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-2 libdbus-glib-1-dev
libdbus-qt-1-1c2 libgettext-ruby1.8 libsdl-sge-dev linux-restricted-modules-common linux-sound-base mozilla-mplayer nvidia-legacy-kernel-source
python-htmlgen python-pam scim-pinyin syslog-summary
The following packages will be REMOVED:
python2.3
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 24 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 10.9MB will be freed.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 336206 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing python2.3 ...
Unlinking and removing bytecode for runtime python2.3...
pycentral: pycentral rtremove: installed runtime python2.3 not found
pycentral rtremove: installed runtime python2.3 not found
dpkg: error processing python2.3 (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
python2.3
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
ryan@rkavanagh:~/deb$