On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:30:06AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > It seems I made a `slight' mistake in dpkg 1.7.0 which broke > update-alternatives. Combined with a perl upgrade that can have some > nasty effects. I fixed this in dpkg 1.7.1, and I strongly advise > everyone to immediately upgrade to that version if you have 1.7.0 > installed. > > You can grab it from http://incoming.debian.org/ as soon as I'm finished > uploading it (10 minutes from now hopefully). > > Wichert. Please see bug #76418 from today as well, it is against dpkg.
I followed this advice and upgraded to 1.7.1 just a few minutes ago, however I am still receiving this error below. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. 6 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (127) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt The packages that are not fully installed are: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get -s upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. 6 packages not fully installed or removed. Conf perl-5.6 (5.6.0-1 Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable) Conf perl-5.6-suid (5.6.0-1 Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable) Conf developers-reference (2.8.1 Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable) Conf gnuplot (3.7.1p1-4 Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable, Debian:20000819/testing) Conf perl-5.6-debug (5.6.0-1 Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable) Conf perl-5.6-thread (5.6.0-1 Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable) I understand from another thread you think it may be a broken perl? If so do you recommend I purge perl 5.6 to get things 'working' again? Thanks for your help.
