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Question #76549 on vim in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+question/76549

    Status: Needs information => Open

surfless gave more information on the question:
Oh thank you, that works perfectly.

$ sudo apt-get install vim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
vim is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up vim (2:7.2.079-1ubuntu5) ...
Setting up vim-gnome (2:7.2.079-1ubuntu5) ...

excellent!

For my reference what does .postrm and .postinst contain?

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Isak
Frants<question76549@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Your question #76549 on vim in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+question/76549
>
>    Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Isak Frants requested for more information:
> Hm there should have been a couple of .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives
> :O
>
> Make first backups, and then try to delete these files. Delete everything with "vim" and "vim-gnome".
> sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/vim*.postrm
> sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/vim*.postinst
>
> After that you could try to do a
> sudo apt-get clean
> (this deletes all your .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives)
> sudo apt-get install vim
>
> What do you get?
>
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