Re: dselect is stuck with an error in dpkg-preconfigure --apt

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:30:43AM -0700, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After having put my machine in a really bad state, I reinstalled Debian 2.2
> and then went on to upgrade to unstable so I could make an ICU 1.8 package.
> I am now stuck with an error:
> 
> 94% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at
> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2.
> E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29)
> 
> The dpkg-preconfigure belongs to debconf-tiny 0.2.80.16. There is no
> indication of what file had the parse error etc.
> 
> What can I do t get out of that?

Edit /etc/apt/apt.conf before running dselect.  There should be
something about preconfiguring packages in there which you can comment
out.

   Julian

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