Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.30 Severity: normal dpkg (or is it atp?) reacts strangely after an unsuccessful installation of perl and xsiag. I go to Install, and I get this. I suspect it is not normal. In particular, the "internal error" message makes me send this report.
dselect Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error Correcting dependencies...ok The following NEW packages will be installed: xsiag 1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0b/4247k of archives. After unpacking 2405k will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] W: Couldn't locate an archive source for package xsiag W: Couldn't locate an archive source for package perl E: Internal Error, No file name for perl Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. Setting up sp (1.3.2-1.2-2) ... Registering sp documentation...Can't locate re.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.005 /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/File/Basename.pm line 127. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/File/Basename.pm line 127. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 18. dpkg: error processing sp (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: sp installation script returned error exit status 100. Press RETURN to continue.