Trying to install the current draft version of potato, using boot-floppies version 2.2.16-2000-07-14, I encountered the following:
During the "Setting up..." phase of package installation, several packages reported that they "could not open file '/usr/lib/mime/packages/mime-support-compat'". While dselect/apt/dpkg was proceeding with configuring packages, I went to another virtual console and checked the file /usr/lib/mime/packages/mime-support-compat. It was a link to /var/lib/mime/mime-support-compat. That file did not exist, but /var/lib/mime/mime-support-compat.dpkg-new did. When installation was done, /var/lib/mime/mime-support-compat.dpkg-new was gone and /var/lib/mime/mime-support-compat existed again. It appears that some packages depend on mime-support-compat and its being installed before those those packages are installed, but the system does not finish installing mime-support-compat before installing those packages. I noticed five such packages in the default (already selected in dselect) set of packages: tetex-bin, groff, less, lpr, lynx. I encountered this doing a very basic system installation. When I booted from the newly-installed system, when I got to the simple-vs.-advanced package selection option, I chose advanced. When I got into package selection in dselect I changed nothing. When I got into the Install Packages step of dselect, the errors appeared. I have more-detailed notes of my installation steps if anyone needs them for tracking this down. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
