I get the follwoing error message when doing './cross-install /gnu' on my hurd partition where I downloaded the debs to:
ERROR: dpkg did return unusual messages, please investigate: INSTALLATION ABORTED! Then it attempts to install them all over again. Here is my install.log. dpkg-deb: building package `adduser' in `temp_build/adduser.deb'. (Reading database ... 3880 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace adduser 3.18 (using temp_build/adduser.deb) ... Unpacking replacement adduser ... dpkg-deb: building package `ae' in `temp_build/ae.deb'. dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (hurd-i386) does not match system (i386) (Reading database ... 3880 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ae 962-26 (using temp_build/ae.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ae ... dpkg-deb: building package `base-files' in `temp_build/base-files.deb'. dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (hurd-i386) does not match system (i386) (Reading database ... 3880 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace base-files 2.2.1 (using temp_build/base-files.deb) ... Unpacking replacement base-files ... Replacing files in old package libreadlineg2 ... dpkg-deb: building package `base-passwd' in `temp_build/base-passwd.deb'. dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (hurd-i386) does not match system (i386) (Reading database ... 3880 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace base-passwd 3.1.7 (using temp_build/base-passwd.deb) ... Unpacking replacement base-passwd ... dpkg-deb: building package `bash' in `temp_build/bash.deb'. dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (hurd-i386) does not match system (i386) dpkg: regarding temp_build/bash.deb containing bash, pre-dependency problem: bash pre-depends on libc0.2 (>= 2.1.3) libc0.2 is unpacked, but has never been configured. dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem ! dpkg: regarding temp_build/bash.deb containing bash, pre-dependency problem: bash pre-depends on libncurses5 libncurses5 is unpacked, but has never been configured. dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem ! (Reading database ... 3880 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace bash 2.04-6.0 (using temp_build/bash.deb) ... Unpacking replacement bash ... dpkg-deb: building package `bsdutils' in `temp_build/bsdutils.deb'. dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (hurd-i386) does not match system (i386) dpkg: regarding temp_build/bsdutils.deb containing bsdutils, pre-dependency problem: bsdutils pre-depends on libc0.2 (>= 2.1) libc0.2 is unpacked, but has never been configured. dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem ! (Reading database ... 3880 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace bsdutils 4.4.1.1 (using temp_build/bsdutils.deb) ... Unpacking replacement bsdutils ... dpkg-deb: building package `debianutils' in `temp_build/debianutils.deb'. dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (hurd-i386) does not match system (i386) dpkg: regarding temp_build/debianutils.deb containing debianutils, pre-dependency problem: debianutils pre-depends on libc0.2 (>= 2.1.3) libc0.2 is unpacked, but has never been configured. dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem ! (Reading database ... 3880 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace debianutils 1.13.3.0 (using temp_build/debianutils.deb) ... Unpacking replacement debianutils ... dpkg-deb: building package `diff' in `temp_build/diff.deb'. dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (hurd-i386) does not match system (i386) dpkg: regarding temp_build/diff.deb containing diff, pre-dependency problem: diff pre-depends on libc0.2 (>= 2.1.3) libc0.2 is unpacked, but has never been configured. dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem ! (Reading database ... 3880 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace diff 2.7-21 (using temp_build/diff.deb) ... Unpacking replacement diff ... dpkg-deb: building package `dpkg-ftp' in `temp_build/dpkg-ftp.deb'. (Reading database ... 3880 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg-ftp 1.6.7 (using temp_build/dpkg-ftp.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg-ftp ... dpkg-deb: building package `dpkg-mountable' in `temp_build/dpkg-mountable.deb'. dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (hurd-i386) does not match system (i386) (Reading database ... 3880 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg-mountable 0.8 (using temp_build/dpkg-mountable.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg-mountable ... dpkg-deb: building package `dpkg' in `temp_build/dpkg.deb'. dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (hurd-i386) does not match system (i386) dpkg: regarding temp_build/dpkg.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency problem: dpkg pre-depends on libc0.2 (>= 2.1) libc0.2 is unpacked, but has never been configured. dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem ! dpkg: regarding temp_build/dpkg.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency problem: dpkg pre-depends on libncurses4 (>= 4.2-3.1) libncurses4 is unpacked, but has never been configured. dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem ! (Reading database ... 3880 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.13 (using temp_build/dpkg.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg ... dpkg-deb: building package `e2fsprogs' in `temp_build/e2fsprogs.deb'. dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (hurd-i386) does not match system (i386) dpkg: regarding temp_build/e2fsprogs.deb containing e2fsprogs, pre-dependency problem: e2fsprogs pre-depends on libc0.2 (>= 2.1.3) libc0.2 is unpacked, but has never been configured. dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem ! (Reading database ... 3880 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace e2fsprogs 1.19-1 (using temp_build/e2fsprogs.deb) ... Unpacking replacement e2fsprogs ... I am running woody on this machine. For now, I am going to to try the tarball and see if that works better. Thanks, Dan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel E. 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