Re: dselect Trouble
> Hello World,
>
> I have installed Debian 2.2rc0 on my new computer, and wanted to make an
> upgrade. I use apt through dselect. In my sources.list (in /etc/apt/) I
> inserted the german official mirror, made an update and entered "Install".
> After having downloaded all packages, it makes a package scan, I there I
> run into the following error message:
>
> 88% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at
> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2.
> E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned with an error
> code (29)
> ..
> ..
>
> How can I fix this error? Any ideas?
preconfigure = some package required another to not only be unpacked, but
configured first. (keyword "pre-depends") For some reason the other
package failed to get configured ...
Now, first I'd be tempted to say "find the pre-depended package, and find
out what's wrong in its configure scripts" but, I've had that come up to
me before and the errors look subtly different. It's a little more clear
which app hates you, for instance.
I normally stick with apt, and use console-apt for full screen work, so I
don't know how to determine if dselect is helping or hurting.
* Heather Stern * star@ many places...
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