On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:17:53PM -0700, D. wrote:
I did a dist upgrade to Woody and keep receiving the error not
preconfiguring the package, apt-utils is not installed.
My question is when you do a upgrade like this why isn't apt-utils
installed with the upgrade if it is required
Hi All
I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450
(PIII
800 MGZ) with a EN2442 Nic Card that I had to
configure the tulip driver for.
I did a dist upgrade to Woody and keep receiving
the error not preconfiguring the package, apt-utils is
not installed.
My question is when you do
potato, I upgraded to kernel 2.4.12 without any problems
because I guess potato now has those packages needed to run kernel 2.4.x
too. Then I rebooted and added the apt-sources for woody. I FIRST did a
apt-get install apt-utils .20 MB of packages where downloaded for this.
AFTER that I did a dist
Thanks, I install the apt-utils then do the
dist-upgrade.
Don
--- Bastiaan Huisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've noticed this problem too.. And because I had so
much problems getting X
to start, I tried another distro. When (in the other
distro) I found the
problem why my X wouldn't
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:09:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
So believe it or not, it does work for most of us. If you can get a log of
that with DEBCONF_DEBUG set, I would of course like to see it.
I'll likely be doing at least one fresh install within the next 2-3 weeks.
How would I best
Dave Sherohman wrote:
When did apt-utils become mandatory? I just did an apt-get upgrade (in
testing) and it died immediately after downloading packages with the message
debconf: cannot preconfigure packages -- apt-utils is not installed
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure
to mind of apt-utils consistently reasking
questions are ssh and apt-utils itself. (Although apt-utils is at least
decent enough to remember, when making the second pass through, that I'd
told it to use the text interface the first time around.) But I don't
recall any cases where I've been asked
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
Jason, if it's doing that, I think that's a dumb heuistic. As you can
see, there are valid reasons for ignoring the input and not failing.
It is doing that and it has always done that.. It only fails sometimes
because the pipe fills up.
Probably will
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
It is doing that and it has always done that.. It only fails sometimes
because the pipe fills up.
Probably will take that out..
Ok, I will make dpkg-preconfigure do it's best to always read all input
in --apt mode, but I stress that its best is not good enough, I can
Dave Sherohman wrote:
The two cases that spring to mind of apt-utils consistently reasking
questions are ssh and apt-utils itself. (Although apt-utils is at least
decent enough to remember, when making the second pass through, that I'd
told it to use the text interface the first time around
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:29:43PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
I don't know what you're talking about: apt-utils does not use debconf.
My mistake; s/apt-utils/debconf/g.
Whenever I install a new system, debconf (or rather, the minimal version on
the install disks) throws up a curses-based menu
Dave Sherohman wrote:
Whenever I install a new system, debconf (or rather, the minimal version on
the install disks) throws up a curses-based menu asking what mode I want it
to run in, then what level of messages to display. I consistently answer
text/medium. It then preconfigures other
When did apt-utils become mandatory? I just did an apt-get upgrade (in
testing) and it died immediately after downloading packages with the message
debconf: cannot preconfigure packages -- apt-utils is not installed
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true
Installing
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