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Re: installation problem 3: missing package configuration dependencies




> From: Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>

> 
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 08:34:33PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> > 
> > Trying to install the current draft version of potato, using
> > boot-floppies version 2.2.16-2000-07-14, I encountered the 
> > following:
> > 
> > During the "Setting up..." phase of package installation, several 
> > packages reported that they "could not open file 
> > '/usr/lib/mime/packages/mime-support-compat'".
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Known problem. Falls into the category of "annoying but harmless".
> 
> This happened with Debian 2.1 (slink) as well. Once the post-inst for
> mime-support is run, all is well.

Are you sure?  It seems like something is trying to update a file
that isn't there.  Do the intended updates ever make it into the file?

If not, this sounds like a bug.



Daniel
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