Re: help: crash during apt-get install

[Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

Phil Fraering <pgf@globalreach.net> writes:

> install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory.
> dpkg: warning: old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2.
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead....
> install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or
> directory...

Hm, do you have a /usr/share/info directory?  If not, something is
broken; create it, and try reinstalling those packages.

> BTW, is there a way I can check overall system consistency in case
> there are other gotchas there that I need to know about?

There is "debsums" for verifying the MD5 sums of files in packages.