E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (100)
Thanks for your help, i could deblock 2 machines, now i am stuck with the last
one, which is in really bad shape.....
trying the following:
yoda:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bc binutils blas1 bsdutils bug console-data console-tools console-tools-libs
debconf
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apt-find communicator-nethelp-46 communicator-spellchk-46
9 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 219 not upgraded.
57 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 482kB/10.1MB of archives. After unpacking 1034kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 ftp://tux.u-strasbg.fr potato/main apt 0.3.14 [482kB]
Fetched 482kB in 3s (126kB/s)
E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (100)
E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt
i tryed to remove all traces of apt to reinstall it, but somehwere i seem to
have missed some..... BTW where else as in /var/lib/dpkg/status does dpkg
store the installed packages? (i removed all directories of apt, all binaries,
set it in /var/lib/dpkg/status to no installed.... but dpkg reported an
syntax error in /var/lib/dpkg/status, despite i copyed the status from
another non installed package)
dpkg --configure -a has enourmous problems, since lots of packages are not
configured and make problems....
any hint on what i could try?
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