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Re: vim-perl update fails



On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:02:52PM +0100, Dr. Guenter Bechly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> yesterday I updated vim-perl from Debian unstable and got
> the following error during installation with dselect:

[snip]
 

> Should I file this as a bug, or could be something wrong with my Perl
> installation?

Don't file a bug. There's already _at least_ 5 or 6 bugs about this
problem in the BTS...

There are just two wrong linebreaks in the postinst script.

Just correct /var/lib/dpkg/info/vim.postinst (or maybe vim-perl.postinst
in your case) so that the update-alternatives call is exactly one
line (use '\'), e.g.:

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/$i $i \
/usr/bin/vim 120 \
--slave /usr/share/man/man1/$i.1.gz $i.1.gz \
/usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz

Then call apt-get install vim-perl again, and it should install fine.


Uwe.
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Uwe Hermann <uh1763@hermann-uwe.de>
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/
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