Can't install undated pkgs
Dear Debians: I keep getting /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory E: Write error -write (32-broken pipe) E: Failure to run script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt O(f course, dpkg-preconfigure is there in /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure and so is command for it in /etc/apt/apt.conf.) when I run apt-get dist-upgrade and try to install dl'd packages. Have tried to re-install ftp'd apt, xterm, debconf, debconfutils, bsdutils, bsdmainutils, dpkg but no go. I've got 90Mb updated pkgs waiting to be installed... Suggestions? Eric Wolven --
Re: Can't install undated pkgs
eric k. wolven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory E: Write error -write (32-broken pipe) E: Failure to run script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt O(f course, dpkg-preconfigure is there in /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure and so is command for it in /etc/apt/apt.conf.) Is /usr/bin/perl there, and pointing to the right place? (It should be a symlink to /etc/alternatives/perl.) You may have been bitten by the update-alternatives bug in dpkg 1.7.0. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't install undated pkgs
dpkg --configure --pending to find out which package is the culprit, then either force install it or remove it, depending on how you feel about force installs. the switches needed are in the manpage or dpkg --help. On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, eric k. wolven wrote: Dear Debians: I keep getting /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory E: Write error -write (32-broken pipe) E: Failure to run script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt O(f course, dpkg-preconfigure is there in /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure and so is command for it in /etc/apt/apt.conf.) when I run apt-get dist-upgrade and try to install dl'd packages. Have tried to re-install ftp'd apt, xterm, debconf, debconfutils, bsdutils, bsdmainutils, dpkg but no go. I've got 90Mb updated pkgs waiting to be installed... Suggestions? Eric Wolven -- -- When you are having a bad day, and it seems like everybody is trying to tick you off, remember that it takes 42 muscles to produce a frown, but only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good sniper rifle. Who is John galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
