Re: What's the deal with apt, debconf and dpkg-preconfig?
Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> I'm about installing a new Debian machine, starting from a slink
> base installation, updating by apt and feeding package selections
> by dpkg --set-selections, immediately followed by a apt -d dselect-upgrade
> run.
> First of all I upgraded apt to the latest version from potato.
> I decided to install debconf next, hoping to prevent the recent
> problems with packages calling debconf wrongly.
None of those problems should happen on a fresh potato install or upgrade,
all of them are debconf upgrade-related problems.
> Nevertheless, the next problem doesn't depend on the ForceLoopBreak
> option: apt-get install debconf didn't work. I got an error message,
> that /bin/sh cannot find dpkg-preconfig, which is very obvious, since
> this file belongs to debconf, which wasn't installed yet.
If you got this message, you must have copied an /etc/apt/apt.conf over from
some other machine that had debconf installed on it.
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