Installing xserver-xfree86 fails

[Adam Parrish <waparris@ncsu.edu>]

Hi,

I am trying to get Xfree86 installed on an Itanium HP i2000. When I
issue apt-get install xserver-xfree86 I get the following error:

rau:~# apt-get install xserver-xfree86
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  discover read-edid mdetect
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xserver-xfree86
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6830kB of archives.
After unpacking 24.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
xserver-xfree86 failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10
(Reading database ... 31878 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xserver-xfree86 (from .../xserver-xfree86_4.2.1-12.1_ia64.deb)
...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xfree86_4.2.1-12.1_ia64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xfree86_4.2.1-12.1_ia64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Anyone know how to fix that?

Cheers,

-- 
Adam Parrish
Asst. Linux Administrator
ECE Dept, North Carolina State University
Office: 919.515.0124