Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: : : The Packages files not always up to date. This causes the dselect : tool to think version X of a particular package is available from the : ftp server, when in reality the package available is X+epsilon. This : causes dselect to try to retrieve a non-existing file, and it fails. : This in turn causes some dependencies to fail.
Yes -- so a question to all the other readers and/or maintainers and/or Ian: is there (I'm sure, it is ;-) a script that scans available *.deb files and creates the Packages file? (Since sometime I retrieve a updated version of a *.deb file and want dselect know of this. : A couple of packages are missing some of the install scripts. For : example sudo. Here is the installation error. I guess this should : be directed to the maintainer of the sudo package? : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : Setting up sudo ... : dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file or directory : dpkg: error processing sudo (--install): : subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As a quick fix: cd /bin ln -s /usr/bin/perl . since the sudo's post-install script relies on /bin/perl ... : : kerneld should be started before ANYTHING else happens, with the : possible exception of a root filesystem check. The reason for this : All in all i am very happy to have discovered the Debian : distribution. Me too. Heiko public pgp : finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] fingerprint: A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92