The last couple times I've tried to do an apt-get dist-upgrade, dpkg-preconfig failed. A quick search of package contents on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (that is very convienient, I appreicate it a lot) shows that the program dpkg-preconfig is part of the package debconf. I go to /var/cache/apt/archives/ where apt-get -d dist-upgrade just downloaded all the new .DEBs to, find a newer version of debconf there, and do
dpkg -i debconf_0.2.44_all.deb Then my apt-get dist upgrade works. This process is broken. the current version of debconf needs to be automatically installed *first* whenever an apt-get dist-upgrade is done. btw, all of this stuff absolutely rocks when it works. And I'd still like to see the .deb & .rpm file formats merged to avoid a bit of duplication of efforts. Also, is there a commandline utility to search the contents of packages (like http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages) yet ? d-bm6-1c:/etc# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libace5.0 The following packages have been kept back fvwm guile1.3 libmime-base64-perl mixviews perl-tk 55 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/19.7MB of archives. After unpacking 4841kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Configuring packages ... E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt exited unexpectedly E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt d-bm6-1c:/var/log# cd /var/cache/apt/archives/ d-bm6-1c:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i debconf_0.2.44_all.deb apt-get dist-upgrade then works. __________________________________________________________________ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Find the next largest prime, be famous: http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
