Re: Error on upgrade..............

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:41:25AM +1100, Charlie wrote:
> Debian Jessie, tried to upgrade today and received this message:
> 
> Extracting templates from packages: 100%
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Setting up libdb5.3:i386 (5.3.28-7~deb8u1) ...
> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-13) ...
> (Reading database ... 240422 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb ...
> dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Preparing to unpack .../libgpg-error0_1.17-3_i386.deb ...
> Unpacking libgpg-error0:i386 (1.17-3) over (1.16-1) ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> What do I have to delete to get this to go away?

rm /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb

then

apt-get -f install

-dsr-