Re: cannot install console-common_0.7.*
Fabian Jakobs wrote:
>
> Am Dienstag, 14. August 2001 00:01 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> > Fabian Jakobs wrote:
> > > since about version 0.7.4 console-common doesn't install anymore. It
> > > only gives me this error-message:
> > >
> > > ------------
> > > schw-zimmer8:/home/fabian# apt-get dist-upgrade
> > > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > > Calculating Upgrade... Done
> > > The following packages have been kept back
> > > debian-policy libeel-data libgal-data locales
> > > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> > > Need to get 0B/21.9kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B will be used.
> > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> > > (Reading database ... 100432 files and directories currently installed.)
> > > Preparing to replace console-common 0.7.1 (using
> > > .../console-common_0.7.6_all.deb) ...
> > > dpkg: error processing
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives/console-common_0.7.6_all.deb (--unpack):
> > > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 29
> > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives/console-common_0.7.6_all.deb
> > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > > schw-zimmer8:/home/fabian#
> > >
> > > -------------------
> > >
> > > this happend for all versions since about 0.7.4. The oddity is, that
> > > does something with the keycodes so that I have afterwards an american
> > > keyboard layout (German G4 USB).
> > >
> > > is there a fix for this?
> >
> > Works here...
> >
> > Wild guess: You don't have console-data installed? If installing it solves
> > the problem, please submit a bug against console-common.
>
> console-data was indeet not installed but installling didn`t solve the
> problem. I still get the same error.
Bummer. I'm afraid you'll have to find out what in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/console-common.preinst bombs out. Or submit a bug anyway,
maybe the maintainer has an idea. ;)
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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