Re: error: dpkg-preconfigure, make, binutils not configured properly
Hi Robert
I had a similar problem, perl wasn't running any more, but
I posted some logs of my dist-upgrade and Mathias Palm
told me to install libc6 by hand:
I got the .deb from debian.org and installed it with
dpkg -i ... - no perl needed for this.
Maybe this helps?
Hannes
P.S.: I think I used something like dpkg --audit and posted
the output along with the output of apt-get dist-upgrade ...
* David Dooling <ddooling@watson.wustl.edu> [020412 10:46]:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:29:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I had similar problems when I treid to upgrade from potato to woody.
> The installation of perl got totally hosed. This basically made it so
> I couldn't install anything, since a lot of pre/post scripts use perl.
>
> Only later when I actually read the docs did I learn that you have to
> upgrade dpkg, apt, and a few other packages to the version in woody
> before doing a complete upgrade to avoid such problems. I would guess
> this wasn't done in this case.
>
> Rather than try to fix it by hand, I started from scratch, wiping my
> partitions and all.
>
> dd
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