On my s390 system in Hercules, update-alternatives fails for every package which uses it:
Setting up less (358-8) ... update-alternatives: slave link name /usr/share/man/man1/pager.1.gz duplicated dpkg: error processing less (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up telnet (0.17-15.0.1) ... update-alternatives: slave link name /usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1.gz duplicated dpkg: error processing telnet (--configure): [...] Setting up g++ (2.95.4-6) ... update-alternatives: slave link name /usr/share/man/man1/c++.1.gz duplicated dpkg: error processing g++ (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up gcc (2.95.4-6) ... update-alternatives: slave link name /usr/share/man/man1/cc.1.gz duplicated dpkg: error processing gcc (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 All of the invocations appear to be correct (a similar error in all of these packages would be quite unlikely), and update-alternatives isn't doing anything ridiculous that I can see, so maybe this is a Perl bug of some sort? dpkg 1.9.17 perl 5.6.1-5 -- - mdz
