The package jedit needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it
August 10th, 2006 by 
Marius Hanganu
I tried installing the .deb package for jedit. Big mistake :-). Not only that Ubuntu refused installing it, but it also brought my synaptic into an incosistent state: every time I started synaptic I was getting this error:
The package jedit needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it
and then no package was displayed. One of the reasons I like Linux (Ubuntu) over Windows is apt and the synaptic interface. Imagine my desolation.
I tried various “apt-get remove jedit”, clean, autoclean options. No luck. Neither the guys on Ubuntu mailing list could help me out here. Tried removing it using dpkg and I got
dpkg: error processing jedit (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: jedit
But I finally got it working. This command forced the removal of my incosistent jedit package:
dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq jedit
Update: after I managed to fix it and post this entry, I was finally pointed on ubuntu users mailing list to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=232849&highlight=jedit. Phew! lots of replies before the author figured the answer for himself.
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September 1st, 2006 at 12:34 am
Just wanted to say thank for the solution. Just a quick note, if you copy & paste code the hyphens join together, causing the command line fail.
Just make use there are two hyphens, ie. ‘ - - ‘ before force and remove.
September 4th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Tks for tips man!
I haved this problem with opera.
Very tks
September 8th, 2006 at 5:02 am
Thanks a lot dude.
September 8th, 2006 at 7:21 am
Thanks man! I had this same problem.
You’re a life saver.
September 11th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Thanks a lot.
September 13th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
thanx a tonn mann……was stuck wid it for hours……. :-)
October 30th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
THANX!! This has been a real pain.
November 3rd, 2006 at 5:17 am
Tnx man, solved time for me.
November 26th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
I had the same problem with the drivers of a Brother multifunction.
I could fix the problem with ‘dpkg –remove –force-remove-reinstreq mfc9070lpr’. But first, had to remove all the archives (scripts) whose name began with mfc9070 in the directory /var/lib/dpkg/info/ .
I expect it will be useful.
January 19th, 2007 at 1:36 am
chas, thanks, that was a lifesaver.
January 27th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Thanks chas, I had the same problem with maya (awcommon package), and I didn’t manage to fix my problem (which I created myself), but canceling the files in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ directory solved my problem!
March 28th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Thanks you saved my evening : )
And I’ll remember to search first before playing around myself
April 25th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Thank you so much.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Thanks a heap. A solution at last!
May 30th, 2007 at 12:13 am
@maarten
can you help me on removing this awcommon. I’ve tried everthing bu no luck at all. I really don’t know any way around this.. please help…
May 30th, 2007 at 12:22 am
ohhh my!!! I just removed the awcommon…
sorry for the double post,stupid me..
I read the post of chas and that’s it!!
tnx to all!!!
May 30th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
thanks man i had the exact same problem with opera and now it’s working fine, i wasnt able to update anything b4 i did this
June 1st, 2007 at 8:25 pm
[...] The package jedit needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it [...]
June 21st, 2007 at 4:41 am
thx a bunch Marius, Mason, and chas!!
November 29th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Yes Chas, thanks for that…