Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > The debugging options don't help much here
I just found that I can get some more debugging information, but I don't get much wiser from that... # dpkg --debug=3133 --install /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_2.96.5.20040711-4_all.deb D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci' D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting running rm -rf (Reading database ... 71393 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tetex-extra (from .../tetex-extra_2.96.5.20040711-4_all.deb) ... D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/lambda/config/language.dat' no package, no hash D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/xypic.map' no package, no hash D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/bsr.map' no package, no hash D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/bsr-interpolated.map' no package, no hash D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/psfonts.ams' no package, no hash D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/psfonts.cm' no package, no hash D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/psfonts.amz' no package, no hash D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/psfonts.cmz' no package, no hash D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texdoctk/texdoctk.dat' no package, no hash D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texdoctk/texdocrc' no package, no hash D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=not installed D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst ( ) mkdir: cannot create directory `': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_2.96.5.20040711-4_all.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm ( ) D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci' D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting running rm -rf D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/var/lib/dpkg/reassemble.deb' Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_2.96.5.20040711-4_all.deb Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer