Bug#43205: dpkg: install-info refuses to run
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 akim@epita.fr wrote:
FWIW - I had this same problem. Turns out there were two versions of
install-info on the machine and the wrong version was being loaded.
This prevented me from loading many potato packages, gcc, g++, egcc,
bash, bison,flex, etc. Search for duplicates and remove, you'll be back
to a working system and can avoid --xextract and manually installing!
This drove me nuts for about a month!
Best,
Mike
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.4.1.6
> Severity: normal
>
> While trying to install ssh, apt-get decided to remove gmp2 and install
> the library libgmp2. But the process keeps on failing *without giving
> pertinent information*. This might not be a right bug report, but I
> still wish to express the fact that there are no --verbose options which
> would help me understand how I could fix this process.
>
> Thanks a lot for the work!
>
> Akim
>
> ~ # dpkg --remove gmp2 Err 1 #40
> (Reading database ... 64280 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing gmp2 ...
> install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
> dpkg: error processing gmp2 (--remove):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> install-info: No such file or directory for Development
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> gmp2
>
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: potato
> Kernel Version: Linux beyrouth 2.2.10 #14 SMP Wed Jun 30 15:07:10 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
>
> Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
> ii libc6 2.1.2-0pre7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
> ii libncurses4 4.2-3.2 Shared libraries for terminal handling
> ii libstdc++2.9-gl 2.91.66-2 The GNU stdc++ library (EGCS version)
>
>
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