I've been having difficulty installing postgresql, other packages install normally. Any advice what to do here?
# apt-get install postgresql Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: postgresql 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 508 not upgraded. Need to get 3655kB of archives. After unpacking 9380kB will be used. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main postgresql 7.4.2-3 [3655kB] Fetched 3655kB in 42s (87.0kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... dirname: too many arguments Try `dirname --help' for more information. postgresql failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1 (Reading database ... 63874 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking postgresql (from .../postgresql_7.4.2-3_i386.deb) ... dirname: too many arguments Try `dirname --help' for more information. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql_7.4.2-3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql_7.4.2-3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I have the current coreutils installed # dpkg -l coreutils Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii coreutils 5.0.91-2 The GNU core utilities Thanks in advance for any help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]