Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)
Thank you, Christian. Yes, man-db's unspecified dependency on perl appears to be the problem. And so it seems, as BG Lim pointed out (thank you), that this is a small packaging bug. Thanks, folks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)
On Jun 19, John M. Rulnick wrote Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. Hi, did you install perl ? Or did you stick with the perl which comes with the installation disks and didn't install the rest of perl ? I have dpkg -s perl Package: perl Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: interpreters Installed-Size: 5399 Maintainer: Darren Stalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 5.003.07-10 Replaces: io Provides: io Pre-Depends: ldso (= 1.8.0-0), libc5 (= 5.4.0-0), libdb1, libgdbm1 Suggests: perl-suid, perl-debug Conflicts: io and it did succeed installing man-db. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)
The problem is that the script needs Long.pm, which (I think), is a Perl script. Install Perl from interpreters and it should be fine. I think this is a bug, because perl is big and not many people esp newbies want it or need it, just to install man, which shoudl be the first thing any newbie installs. I emailed the maintainer but has not got a response. BG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)
Summary of problem: -- Installation of the current (bo/1.3) man package fails. In particular, with a fresh install of Debian 1.3, both dpkg -i man-db_2.3.10-38.deb and dpkg -i man-db_2.3.10-39.deb yield failed configuration due to failure of /usr/sbin/chmanconfig. Problem details: --- The output of 'dpkg -i man-db_2.3.10-39.deb' ends with: ... Manual page hierarchy: /usr/X11R6/man Cat page hierarchy: /var/catman/X11R6 Cat sections:cat1 cat3 cat5 install /var/catman/X11R6/cat1 /var/catman/X11R6/cat3 /var/catman/X11R6/cat5 Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: man-db I find no mention of this on the user mailing list archives of May or June. All ideas and suggestions are welcome. Thank you. John -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
