I'm trying to upgrade gzip, but it keeps aborting with this error message; sudo aptitude install gzip Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: apache apache-common attr automake1.7 bash cpp cvs debhelper dialog efax-gtk enigma enscript flex foomatic-bin foomatic-db-engine fortune-mod fortunes-min g++ gaim gawk gcc gconf2 gettext gettext-base gettext-el gnupg initrd-tools kernel-package libacl1 libart-2.0-2 libart-2.0-dev libattr1 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libc6-dev libdate-manip-perl libgconf2-4 libgd-gif1 libgdbmg1 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgtkxmhtml1 libldap2 libmysqlclient12 libnessus2 libntfs4 liborbit2 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpam0g-dev libpng12-0 libsdl-image1.2 libwine libwine-print libwine-twain make man-db mkisofs mysql-client mysql-common mysql-server nessus-plugins ntfstools python python-tk python2.2 python2.2-tk reportbug ssh stunnel tetex-extra urlview wine wine-utils xfig xmms-modplug The following packages will be upgraded: gzip 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 77 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/68.7kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] Y Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] y Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 86566 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gzip 1.3.5-6 (using .../archives/gzip_1.3.5-7_i386.deb) .../var/lib/dpkg/info/gzip.prerm: line 4: 8497 Segmentation fault install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/gzip.info dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 139 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead .../var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: line 4: 8499 Segmentation fault install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/gzip.info dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gzip_1.3.5-7_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 139 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gzip_1.3.5-7_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done
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