Re: perl preconfigure bug?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:54:24AM +0100, Petr ?ech wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:57:45PM -0500 , xsdg wrote:
> > Hi. I've already upgraded to perl-5.6 on one of my boxes. Today, I tried to
> > upgrade perl, perl-base, and perl-modules, and received the following:
> >
> > >[root@~]#apt-get install perl perl-base perl-modules
> > >Reading Package Lists... Done
> > >Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > >3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 167 not upgraded.
> > >Need to get 2801kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> > >Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org sid/main perl-base 5.6.0-21 [840kB]
> > >Get:2 ftp://ftp.debian.org sid/main perl 5.6.0-21 [764kB]
> > >Get:3 ftp://ftp.debian.org sid/main perl-modules 5.6.0-21 [1198kB]
> > >Fetched 2801kB in 47s (58.6kB/s)
> > >Can't exec "apt-extracttemplates": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 66.
> > >debconf: exec of apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directoryreadline() on closed filehandle main::INFO at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 70.
>
> [snip flawless perl configuration]
>
> > (let's hope I don't have to point out the error...)
>
> yes, you do :)) you're missing apt-extracttemplates. so install it
<-- (right over there)
> (it's in apt-utils)
hrm... looks like apt should either depend on apt-utils or not spit out errors...
> Petr Cech
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