dselect/apt problem solved!
Title: dselect/apt problem solved!
I had this problem with dselect/apt and I know others on the list
have also:
I have installed Debian m68k onto a
Quadra 630 (as well as a SE/30) on three or four occasions and have
had this problem every time: after the initial Debian install
via HTTP using dselect, I cannot use dselect again to update
packages. dselect works fine on the initial install, but is
broken thereafter. In particular, if option 1 (Update) of the
dselect menu is selected, the following error message is given:
/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/apt/update: line 20: 265
Segmentation fault $APTGET $OPTS
update
update available list script returned error exit status 139.
Press RETURN to continue.
Option 3, Install, will give the following error:
installation script returned error exit status 139.
Press RETURN to continue.
I submitted a bug report to the APT folks, and was told by Jason
Gunthorpe that the problem was fixed in later versions of apt and
that I should upgrade probably to apt in potato distribution, as well
as libc. Here are the packages that I installed using the "dpkg
-i" command to install manually:
-rw-r--r-- 471126 May 3 15:13
apt_0.3.18.deb
-rw-r--r-- 258218 May 3 15:33
ldso_1.9.11-7.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1991790 May 8 08:21
libc6-dev_2.1.3-8.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1885308 May 3 15:14
libc6_2.1.3-8.deb
-rw-r--r-- 145226 May 3 15:42
libstdc++2.10-glibc2.1_2.95.2-9
dselect now seems to work properly! I haven't seen any
problems with other applications as a result of these installs, but I
haven't used the system extensively yet. Look for the files
here:
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-m68k/
Darryl
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