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fusi	2011-05-27 , 17:12
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Thank you for the reply linuxeventually - really appreciate it

though i actually came back just now to say that i had figured out how to fix it!

what i did was:

1. goto /var/lib/dpkg/info as root

Code:

sudo gainroot
cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/

2. delete anything in that folder that starts with 'shortcutd'

Code:

rm shortcutd*

3. cleaned up the package manager

Code:

dpkg --remove shortcutd

4. rebooted and reinstalled and now it works

yay \o/

thanks for the script! looks very handy

have saved many thanks! hopefully this will help others in the future too

Last edited by fusi; 2011-05-27 at 17:14.

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