Martin Wegmann wrote: > Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 57, <$__ANONIO__> line 3807. This strongly suggests that your debconf cache, /var/cache/deconf/*.dat, is badly corrupted. > E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? Looks like apt's status cache, and/or dpkg's status file is broken. > when downloading debconf-english 1.3.8 > > and install it with > > dpkg -i debconf-english_1.3.8_all.deb > > I get > > diversion file has too long lines or EOF [i] This suggests that your dpkg-divert file, /var/lib/dpkg/diversions, is corrupted. Probably full of binary garbage from some other file. > how do I solve that? You might want to check the rest of the files on your system for curruption, figure out what the problem is, and restore from backups.. -- see shy jo
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