Any dependency that might cause a package installation to fail should be explicit. I have an old system to which I don't have console access, which makes it downright scary to upgrade, but which I must add packages to now and then. My initscripts is 2.86.ds1-1, and I'm getting the same error:
r...@tektonic:~# apt-get install privoxy Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done privoxy is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 690 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up privoxy (3.0.16-1) ... /etc/init.d/privoxy: line 46: /lib/init/vars.sh: No such file or directory invoke-rc.d: initscript privoxy, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing privoxy (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: privoxy E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) r...@tektonic:~# dpkg -l initscripts Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-1 Standard scripts needed for booting and shut I'll upgrade my initscripts to solve the problem, but why not fix the dependencies? The reason people use Debian is because the Debian community takes care of these details. Thanks -- jc -- John Comeau <j...@unternet.net> http://jcomeau.unternet.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
