Apologies, here it is: d...@susruta:~$ dpkg -S `which install-info` dpkg: /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/i386-linux//install-info not found. d...@susruta:~$
And I think this answers the question. I've added the TeX path to my .bashrc before $PATH. I did this in ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc. I've changed those round, but the problem persists. Hmm. Now I get this: d...@susruta:~$ dpkg -S `which install-info` > dpkg: /usr/local/bin/install-info not found. > d...@susruta:~$ > And although I've undone the PATH problem, I now get this: d...@susruta:/usr/local/bin$ ls -l inst* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 2009-10-05 15:49 install-info -> > /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/i386-linux/install-info > d...@susruta:/usr/local/bin$ > 2009/10/8 Micah Cowan <mi...@cowan.name> > Hi Dominik, thanks very much. > > Actually, I need you to type: > dpkg -S `which install-info` > not > dpkg -S which install-info > > But so far I can say this: the output from your install-info --version > is different from what it ought to be. Jaunty's install-info is dpkg's > (and from the dpkg -S output you gave, dpkg agrees). Your dpkg version > is the same one I have; but it doesn't say "GNU install-info 4.12", it > says "Debian install-info version 1.14.24ubuntu1", which identifies it > as the one that comes from dpkg. And GNU install-info 4.12 can't come > from the latest Jaunty texinfo package anyway (which you've already > shown as not installed), since that package is currently at > 4.11.dfsg.1-4. > > The problem is clearly that "install-info" is not invoking the one at > /usr/sbin/install-info, as it expects to, but some other one that's been > injected in a directory closer to the start of your PATH environment > variable. So it's not a bug in wget, nor in dpkg. The remaining question > is, where is it, and where did it come from, and what do all of you have > in common that is provoking this symptom. The corrected "dpkg -S" > command above should help us discover that. > > An additional item: GNU install-info shouldn't emit this error _either_, > provided it was configured at build time to look in the correct place > for "dir". texinfo's "ginstall-info" is misconfigured* to look at /dir, > and apparently so is your install-info, which is why, when it doesn't > find /dir (or whatever file it's misconfigured to look for instead of > /usr/share/info/dir), it complains that you didn't tell it where to put > the wget info entry. > > * "misconfigured", but possibly intentionally, if the packager was > worried about Bad Things Happening when both dpkg's install-info and > ginstall-info are messing with the same file, in possibly incompatible > ways. > > If any of you are still waiting around for a workaround to your borked > situation, note that if you edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/wget.postinst (as > root), and replace "install-info" with "/usr/sbin/install-info", and > then run "sudo dpkg --configure --pending", it should resolve the > situation. Please don't stop participating in this bug, though, so we > can find out where the glitch came from, and inform the appropriate > people so they can fix it. > I did this edit, and got: d...@susruta:/usr/local/bin$ sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/info/wget.postinst > [sudo] password for dom: > d...@susruta:/usr/local/bin$ sudo dpkg --configure --pending > Setting up wget (1.11.4-2ubuntu1.1) ... > <blank line> > But when I tried Synaptic and "reinstalled" wget, just to see, I got this: E: wget: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 and now when I run dpgk I get: d...@susruta:/usr/local/bin$ sudo dpkg --configure --pending Setting up wget (1.11.4-2ubuntu1.1) ... install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: error processing wget (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: wget d...@susruta:/usr/local/bin$ Looking again at /var/lib/dpkg/info/wget.postinst, I see that it has been re-written back to it's original form, with no "/usr/sbin/" prefix. Okay, I see. Synaptic re-writes wget.postinst, stripping that prefix. Best, Dominik > > ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) > Status: Incomplete => Invalid > > ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) > Assignee: Dominik Wujastyk (wujastyk) => (unassigned) > > -- > package wget 1.11.4-2ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess > post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444917 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- package wget 1.11.4-2ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444917 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
