Re: Can't get vim installed...

[Fabienne Ducroquet <fabiduc@gmail.com>]

Le Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:37:49 +0100, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> a écrit :
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 07:13:15PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>> The message actually indicates "/usr/bin/dpkg" as you pointed out...
>
> OK, then note down which packages are about to be installed, and try to
> install them manually with dpkg, hoping there will be a more useful
> error message then.

Hi,

    I have the same error message, but it happens only if I try to
install or upgrade packages with sudo aptitude <command> from an account
other than root (and allowed to use aptitude via sudo of course).  If I
am logged in as root, aptitude works fine, even with sudo.

-- 
Fabienne