On 13/10/13 20:32, mick wrote:
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Have you tried aptitude? I have sometimes found that to be a little smarter than apt. And at one time ISTR that debian actually recommended aptitude over apt for distro upgrades.
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Well I tried it, and once I'd figured out how to work it, that didn't work either. :-(
Probably have sussed it though. Google is indeed my friend (5th time luck!)
http://superuser.com/questions/22110/how-to-fix-broken-synaptic-updates-pack...
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/spotify-client.prerm
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq spotify-client
seems to have cured it. I did note down all the things that had supposedly been installed using dpkg -L spotify-client and will check they've gone.
Fingers crossed. Cheers for the help. Steve