At 10:28 AM +1200 6/3/01, Alan Macdougall wrote:
100% [Scanning packages] Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debconf/Template.pm line 60, <Template> chunk 3 E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt Does anyone know what this means, and how I might fix it?
I had a similar problem awhile ago going from potato r2 to woody. In my case, I was able to solve it by using apt-get install dpkg to force dpkg to upgrade first, and then once I did that, apt-get dist-upgrade seemed to be able to proceed okay.
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