tag 208044 + unreproducible tag 208044 + moreinfo thanks Hi Alexander Brill wrote: > In the postinstall this package tries to create a symlink, but it doesn't > check if the symlink is already in place. So when you try to upgrade the Do you have actually checked the postinst? if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then if [ ! -L /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo ]; then ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ if this is not a symlink then do the block if [ ! -d /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict ]; then mkdir -p /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict fi echo "Creating symlink..." cd /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict && \ ln -s /usr/share/myspell/dicts ooo fi fi > package it will break the install: > > Creating symlink... > ln: o/dicts': File exists I do not see what happens here :/ (You meant ooo/dicts, btgw, right?) > dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-debian-files (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 I received that report per mail too. I still do not know what causes it. From what version did you try to upgrade (especially interesting ist the openoffice.org-debian-files version). Was the symlink in place before that? Did it point to the right location? Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' rene@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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