Re: Packages fail to install due to post-install scripts failing

2016-10-16 Thread rhkramer
Nicolas, Thanks--I guess things are OK now, but I'm not sure--well, let me tell you what I found and what I think happened. I went to uninstall doxygen (just in case there was some part of it hanging around that I should get rid of before trying to install again). I used apt- get from a konsol

Re: Packages fail to install due to post-install scripts failing

2016-10-16 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : > I've had several packages fail to install with a message saying that the post- > install script failed (returned a 1, iirc). (I'm writing from my Wheezy > machine.) > Has anybody been having similar problems? Any hints as to w

Packages fail to install due to post-install scripts failing

2016-10-16 Thread rhkramer
I installed Jessie on a new machine not very long ago, specifically to do some development. I've had several packages fail to install with a message saying that the post- install script failed (returned a 1, iirc). (I'm writing from my Wheezy machine.) The most recent such package was doxygen