I am in the process of updating my potato system, and got the following error wit the netstd package (this printout comes from attempting to reinstall the package after the original at-get dist-update errors).
Can anyone tell me what to do? I had re-DL'ed the file just in case it was corrupted. If an earlier thread has addressed this, I'm afraid I don't have knowledge of it. I'm a bit afraid to try using X right now as I don't know what's been changed, etc. ------------- kaynjay:~# apt-get install netstd Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 242 not upgraded. 16 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 212kB of archives. After unpacking 96.3kB will be freed. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main netstd 3.07-10 [212kB] Fetched 212kB in 45s (4676B/s) (Reading database ... 53129 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace netstd 3.07-8 (using .../netstd_3.07-10_i386.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/netstd.prerm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: Permission denied dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: Permission denied dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/netstd_3.07-10_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Permission denieddpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/netstd_3.07-10_i386.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) ------------ Thanks! Kenward