Re: libungif3g-dev: post-installation script error

2000-01-19 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Jan-2000 Ethan Benson wrote: > go edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/libungif3g-dev.postinst (or something > close) you will find either a missing or malformed #! /bin/sh add > that and the problem will go away. there seems to be a rash of weary > developers lately either forgetting or putting #/b

Re: libungif3g-dev: post-installation script error

2000-01-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On 18/1/2000 Christopher S. Swingley wrote: I've been keeping up with potato fairly regularly (two or three times a week), and occasionally I wind up with errors that look like this (this is what I got today): dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec form

RE: libungif3g-dev: post-installation script error

2000-01-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Jan-2000 Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > Sometimes I can get things to work by doing dpkg --purge, apt-get install, > but in this case several things depend on the library. Is there a > way around this, or should I file a bug report and wait for a repaired > package? Where do these inst

libungif3g-dev: post-installation script error

2000-01-18 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
I've been keeping up with potato fairly regularly (two or three times a week), and occasionally I wind up with errors that look like this (this is what I got today): dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing libungif3g-d