Ran into a minor snag today trying to deploy a project with VSeWSS 1.3 – during the deployment it gave me the following error:

Error    32    VSeWSS Service Error: Feature ‘2ade6552-200e-4425-8af5-f1f50c115b7e’ for list template ‘10001’ is not installed in this farm.  The operation could not be completed.

At first glance, it looked my features were not installing in the correct order because the solution was installing a list that required a custom list definition before the custom list definition was being installed.  After switching the order in the WSP view (View -> Other Windows -> WSP View) — you can use the up and down arrows on the view pane to switch feature installation order – I had the same error.

I decided to try deleting the list, but upon visiting the list in the web interface I received a similar error about how the feature was not installed on the farm.  As such, I could not delete the list through the web interface.  Fortunately, the stsadm.exe tool worked just fine:

stsadm.exe -o forcedeletelist -url <urltolisthere>