Jan Tomasek wrote: > on my workstation (unstable) I'm having troubles with many packages it > started with tar (I reported bug report to it ... but problem is propably > somewhere else) and today last was recode. > > It output messages similar to this: > > | Setting up recode (3.6-7) ... > | install-info: unrecognized option `--description=Character set > | conversion utility.' > | Try `install-info --help' for a complete list of options. > | dpkg: error processing recode (--configure): > | subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > | Errors were encountered while processing: > | recode > > It helps to comment out install-info call from package's prerm/postinst > scripts - but this was is really dirty hack ... > > Is anyone experiencing this trouble?
Perhaps you have somehow replaced debian's install-info with the GNU
one, which has a very different purpose. I suggest you check out:
joey@dragon:~>which install-info
/usr/sbin/install-info
joey@dragon:~>install-info --help
usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn]
[--section regexp title] [--infodir=xxx] [--align=nnn]
[--calign=nnn] [--quiet] [--menuentry=xxx] [--info-dir=xxx]
[--keep-old] [--description=xxx] [--test]
[--remove | --remove-exactly ]
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see shy jo
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