Craig Mayhew’s Blog

I recently tried installing a .deb packagae I had made by converting an rpm. Synaptic package manager however errored and since then won’t open. Every time I started synaptic I was getting this error:

The package vmware-server needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it

This command solved it and will force the removal of my incosistent package:

dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq vmware-server

Click the System Menu and then click “Synaptic Package Manger”:

Then type gcc into the quick search box. The list may make take a moment to update. Then if you don;t have a blue box next to gcc like I have in the example then click the empty box and click “Apply” to install the gcc package.