Re: Recovering from accidental debconf removal

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Douglas Bates wrote:
> I am now in the situation where I cannot install either
> debconf_0.2.80.16.deb or debconf-tiny_0.2.80.16.deb.  The error
> messages look like
> 
> 521# dpkg -i /var/tmp/debconf_0.2.80.16.deb 
> (Reading database ... 64872 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace debconf 0.2.80.16 (using /var/tmp/debconf_0.2.80.16.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement debconf ...
> Setting up debconf (0.2.80.16) ...
> Can't locate object method "value" via package "Debconf::Question" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Config.pm line 76.

Either:

a) install debconf 0.4.x from unstable
b) remove /var/lib/debconf/*.db, install stable's debconf
c) replace all occurrences of Debconf:: with Debian::DebConf:: in
   /var/lib/debconf/*.db, install stable's debconf

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