On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 07:19:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Gordon Sadler wrote: > > 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 > > Move /etc/apt/apt.conf out of the way; your perl is broken.
Thanks for the fast reply, however... I did this cd /etc/apt mv apt.conf apt.conf.org sudo apt-get upgrade . . . Setting up perl-5.6 (5.6.0-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/perl-5.6.postinst: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing perl-5.6 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-5.6-suid: perl-5.6-suid depends on perl-5.6 (= 5.6.0-1); however: Package perl-5.6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing perl-5.6-suid (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up developers-reference (2.8.1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/developers-reference.postinst: /usr/sbin/install-docs: No suc h file or directory dpkg: error processing developers-reference (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up gnuplot (3.7.1p1-4) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnuplot.postinst: /usr/share/debconf/frontend: No such file o r directory /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnuplot.postinst: /usr/share/debconf/frontend: No such file o r directory dpkg: error processing gnuplot (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-5.6-debug: perl-5.6-debug depends on perl-5.6 (= 5.6.0-1); however: Package perl-5.6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing perl-5.6-debug (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-5.6-thread: perl-5.6-thread depends on perl-5.6 (= 5.6.0-1); however: Package perl-5.6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing perl-5.6-thread (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: perl-5.6 . . . I know this looks long winded, but that is the results I got. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks again.