On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 02:32:36AM +0100, Rosario Maddox wrote: > Package: libembperl-perl > Version: 2.5.0-4 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Dear Maintainer, > > * What led up to the situation? > > Tried to install it: > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > libembperl-perl is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. > 1 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > Setting up libembperl-perl (2.5.0-4) ... > dpkg: error processing package libembperl-perl (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > libembperl-perl > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > This should not happen.
Could you try editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/libembperl-perl.postinst to add ' -x' to the first shebang line, and then rerun this configuration (dpkg --configure -a)? This should give a bit more information about where it's failing. Thanks, Dominic.