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Re: Can't Upgrade Mozilla



On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:59:59PM -0500, David Greene typed:
} On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Brent Fulgham wrote:
} 
} > Right.  Purge the old debconf, then install debconf.  There is a change
} > in the paths used by Debconf that seems to cause it to flail uncontrollably
} > when trying to upgrade.
} 
} No, I'm totally hosed:
} 
} % dpkg --force-depends --purge debconf
} 
} % apt-get install debconf
<blah blah blah apt-get errors snip>

Um, have you tried using dpkg to install debconf manually?  You can find 
the debconf deb in /var/cache/apt/archives (since it was downloaded by 
apt), and then use dpkg -i <debconf debian package filename here> to 
install it.


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