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Ian Hunter
Asked: 2012-05-22 12:33:37 +0800 CST

Can't remove partially-installed extension

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I'm on an Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP 5.4 installed from a PPA. I had the MySQL library installed (php5-mysql) but wanted to try out the native driver (php5-mysqlnd), so I ran sudo apt-get install php5-mysqlnd. It caused some errors with dpkg, so I tried to remove it:

$ sudo apt-get remove php5-mysqlnd
Removing php5-mysqlnd ...
dpkg: error processing php5-mysqlnd (--remove):
  subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php5 ...
  * Reloading web server config apache2
Errors were encountered while processing:
   php5-mysqlnd

When I first installed php5-mysqlnd, it uninstalled php5-mysql--and now I can't reinstall that, as it tries to remove php5-mysqlnd. Now I'm left without a way to connect to my MySQL server in PHP.

How can I fix this problem? I've tried forcefully removing php5-mysqlnd (as per php5-mysqlnd on debian wheezy/sid?), but that gives the same exact error.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/php5-mysqlnd.prerm

    This allowed me to install php5-mysql again. Modified from How to fix broken synaptic updates

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