Re: dpkg problems
On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Fundamental wrote:
> off and on i get this error with dpkg
>
> Selecting previously deselected package mailagent.
> (Reading database ... 9676 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking mailagent (from mailagent-3.44-6.deb) ...
> Setting up mailagent ...
> dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file or d
> irectory
> dpkg: error processing mailagent (--install):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> mailagent
I just installed Debian on my laptop at work and found this
problem. I've never seen it on the other machines here, but it appears
that some package-install sripts look for perl to be in /bin/perl which it
isn't. Link /usr/bin/perl to /bin/perl, and re-configure those packages
or re-install them.
mike...
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