Re: catch 22?

[Graham Williams <Graham.Williams@cbr.dit.csiro.au>]

Jim Pick wrote on 08 Aug 1996 04:44:21 +1000:

    wb2oyc> <...> In an effort to get a working 2.0.0 kernel with the
    wb2oyc> proper options <...> results in errors during the prerem
    wb2oyc> or postrem scripts for both the source and image package.

    Jim> I had the same problem with a virgin Debian 1.1 installation.
    Jim> I investigated and found that the kernel-image/kernel-source
    Jim> postinst and prerm scripts reference "#! /bin/perl".
    Jim> However, on my virgin Debian 1.1 installation, there was no
    Jim> symlink from /bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl!  I manually created
    Jim> the symlink and that fixed the problem.

This is Bug#3951 I think.  I had the same problem.

Cheers,
Graham