Re: error: dpkg-preconfigure, make, binutils not configured properly

["Robert Hood, Ph.D." <rhood@mtsu.edu>]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I doubled checked that perl is installed--I think that's the problem.
Perl is installed, but apparently (why?) not working:
typing "perl" gets: /usr/local/bin/perl: bad interpreter: no such file or
directory

typing: which perl gets: /usr/bin/perl

so...I think I'll try installing perl again.  But since apt doesn't
work this may be a challenge...

Robert 

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Joey Hess wrote:

> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:29:38 -0400
> From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
> To: "Robert Hood, Ph.D." <rhood@mtsu.edu>
> Cc: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: error: dpkg-preconfigure, make, binutils not configured properly
> 
> Robert Hood, Ph.D. wrote:
> > I upgraded to testing (I saw an enthusiastic "I don't know why everyone
> > isnt using this!" and well...)  I'm not sure how I managed to do this
> > (sigh) but now whenever I try to install a package I get an error:
> > 
> > dpkg-preconfigure: BEGIN: command not found, qq{: command not found, use:
> > command not found.
> 
> Well that's mighty strange. Do you have perl installed on this system?
> What version of debconf do you have installed, what is the first line of
> /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure, what is the md5sum of that script? It
> appears that this perl program is being run as a shell script for some
> reason.
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo
> 
> 


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