Re: more weird apt - bzip2.

[Chris Wakefield <c_wakefield@shaw.ca>]

Hi Bob.

Yes, I get no output from:  perl -e 0
install-docs says:  "no such file...."  but I think it's probably run inside 
the perl shell somehow, so ...

I screwed things up even worse, as I copied over apt-get and dpkg from another 
install and I have a big mess now.
You are right, I have to fix the original problem first, but I can't fix 
without apt-get & dpkg working right, so gotta do a reinstall I think.

Thanks anyways,
Chris W.



On August 21, 2005 11:39 pm, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Chris Wakefield wrote:
> > My system is sick.   For a month now, I haven't been able to successfully
> > update or upgrade, now  I can't install anything at all now:
> > Can anyone suggest some kind of fix?
> > ...
> > Preparing to replace bzip2 1.0.2-8 (using .../bzip2_1.0.2-8_amd64.deb)
> > ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/bzip2.prerm: line 7:  6745 Illegal instruction
> > install-docs -r bzip2
> > dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 132
>
> Hmm...  'install-docs' is a perl script.  Is perl working on your
> system?
>
>   perl -e 0
>   install-docs
>
> Neither of those should have any output.  So errors from those may
> point to something.  The following should list some status output.
>
>   install-docs -s bzip2
>
> But doc-base is not required to be installed.  If the problem is
> something with doc base and not perl then I would try removing it.
> There are some packages that depend upon it so we should use apt to
> remove those too, if that seems reasonable.
>
>   apt-get remove doc-base
>
> Or if that fails because of the current problem:
>
>   dpkg --remove doc-base
>
> I am guessing something is wrong with perl on your system and
> reinstalling it might be best.  But you will probably have to clear
> your current problem first.
>
> Bob