apt reinstall for local package not available

[Peter-Donald]

Confirmations

• [X] I searched for similar bug reports in https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps/issues and found none were relevant.
• [X] I tried updating Pi Apps and the issue is still not fixed. How to update Pi Apps?

What happened?

apps not uninstalling or reinstalling

Description

what should i do?

What is your operating system?

Raspberry pi 4

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Uninstalling LineRider...

Allowing packages required by the LineRider app to be uninstalled
These packages were: apt-transport-https, dirmngr, ffmpeg, gnupg, mono-devel, unzip, zip
Purging the pi-apps-10000b9e package...
E: The package stuntrally needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
Apt finished.
Failed to uninstall the packages!
APT reported these errors:
E: The package stuntrally needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: The package stuntrally needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

Failed to uninstall LineRider!
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[Crilum]

This isn't a problem with LineRider, It's a problem with Stunt Rally. Does Stunt Rally still work? It looks like you need to reinstall it.

@ryanfortner It looks like Stunt Rally is installed from your repo, maybe you could look at this as well?

[theofficialgman]

there isn't a lot ryanfortner can do on his end. stuntrally (if installed through pi-apps) is directly download and installed via the deb. if apt for some reason needs to reinstall it, which is says it needs to, it will not be available, since it is placed in a temporary repo only used by pi-apps and cleared after install.

what is likely happening here is purging one of the dependencies for linerider, apt-transport-https, dirmngr, ffmpeg, gnupg, mono-devel, unzip, zip is triggering a reconfigure of one of the dependencies of stuntrally libboost-wave-dev,libboost-system-dev,libboost-filesystem-dev,libboost-thread-dev,libogre-1.9-dev,libmygui-dev,libsdl2-dev,libogg-dev,libvorbis-dev,libenet-dev,libopenal-dev,libopenal-dev,libbullet-dev,libbullet-extras-dev. after that reconfigure happens, the studtrally deb itself is told to reinstall which it can not do, since it is only downloaded and placed temporarily in the pi-apps local apt repo.

this is another case where the less_apt function is likely hiding useful debug information which could be used to see which exact dependency is triggering the reinstall

[theofficialgman]

if I had to take a guess, my guess would be removing ffmpeg (dependency of linerider) is triggering a reinstall of libsdl2-dev (or one of its own dependencies like libsdl2-0.0) which then triggers a reinstall of stuntrally. I can't reproduce or prove this but I believe this is what is happening