Re: Where is modutils? & bind syntax error

[Lawrence Chim <ychim@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

In a previous message Lawrence Chim said:
> These are the files in modules_2.1.23-1.deb.  It seems that all
> binaries and manpages are missing.

modules_2.1.23-1 is a dummy package used when upgrading from modules to
the newer modutils. Unfortunately modutils has not been installed yet.

Wichert.



Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm installing a new Debian server downloading the latest versions from
> unstable. Everything was ok except for two problems:
> 
> 1. modules version 2.1.23-1 depends on modutils. Where is modutils?
>    I couldn't find it.
> 
> 2. While setting up bind version 4.9.5-1 I get the following error:
> 
>    Setting up bind (4.9.5-1) ...
>    /var/lib/dpkg/info/bind.postinst: line 120: syntax error near
>    unexpected token `done'
>    dpkg: error processing bind (--install):
>     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> 
>    There seems to be a "done" instead of something like "echo done".
>    I changed this but I got an error then on line 125 so I decided
>    to stop looking into it. Has this been fixed in another version?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Pedro I. Sanchez
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