Re: problems with psnfss and (separately) bind
> travis wrote:
> The problems I have are with psnfss-5.2-1.deb and the
> bind-4.9.3-P1-2.deb during the dselect installation. psnfss-5.2-1.deb
> throws out at me the following lines during unpacking:
>
> Unpacking psnfss (from .../debian/stable/binary/tex/psnfss-5.2-1.deb) ...
> dpkg - warning, overriding problem because you used --force:
> trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/OMLhlh.fd', which is
> alsot
> dpkg - warning, overriding problem because you used --force:
> trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/OMShlh.fd', which is
> alsot
> dpkg: error processing /root/debian/stable/binary/tex/psnfss-5.2-1.deb
> (--insta:
> corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
>
This also happened to me the other day but I didn't have time to try several
mirrors, just the one I was using.
> I ftp'd it from two mirrors and debian.org as well, still ended
> with the same problem. Since all I used was dselect on the package I can
> only assume it would be a structural error with the package itself. With
> the bind package:
>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/bind.postinst: _: command not found
> dpkg: error processing bind (--install):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Don't know about this one, I don't use it.
>
> I would think this would also to be a distribution error. I surely haven't
> had much experience with the details of dpkg or dselect, inevitably that's
> where I am headed. But until I become the true debian package mastermind,
> has anyone successfully installed (or come into error with)
> psnfss-5.2-1.deb? And, are the scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/info from the
> packages themselves (I could only imagine they would be) or do they live
> somewhere else?
>
Luis.
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