Can I get dpkg to ignore an error returned from a post-installation script?

I am manually installing a .deb file (which I don't maintain) onto my Ubuntu system.

The package has a post-installation script which erroneously fails, and therefore the package is considered broken.

dpkg: error processing astah-community (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127

This package is actually installed correctly and is working fine (the post-installation script is incorrect). When I perform any apt operation on my system it now complains that the package is broken; how can I resolve this?

This doesn't help:

sudo dpkg -i /path/to/the.deb --force-all

wool.in.silver

Posted 2013-03-14T11:53:13.633

Reputation: 211

Answers

You can edit the post install script at /var/lib/dpkg/info/astah-community.postinst to comment out a portion that is failing. Or you can just rename/remove that file to prevent dpkg from running it at all.

Once you've done one of those you can use dpkg --configure astah-community to have dpkg retry the configuration process, and hopefully have that succeed.

qqx

Posted 2013-03-14T11:53:13.633

Reputation: 2 603

Thanks, worked for me too, just don't try to do it with aptitude, for some reason it keeps replacing my edited postinst script. But apt-get worked for me. – soger – 2016-05-13T09:58:27.807

Yes, that worked! Thankyou. – wool.in.silver – 2013-03-14T19:55:11.880