hi thomas, since it's a failing postinst script that's running and y ou have a fairly stripped down system, my guess is that cactid is missing a dependency on something.
as i'm fairly busy with other projects/packages, i could really use your help to find this. if you could, please start by placing a "set -x" at the top of the /var/lib/dpkg/info/cacti.postinst file, and then attempting to configure cacti again (if it's still half-installed you should be able to do this with dpkg --configure -a). the output from the postinst will probably then give a clear idea of what's missing. thanks, sean
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