Re: dpkg: `error setting ownership of symlink'
Mike Hill <mikehill@hgeng.com> writes:
MH> Is there something I can do to get around this error?
MH> dpkg: error processing tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (--install):
MH> error setting ownership of symlink
MH> `usr/doc/tk4.2/changelog.gz': No such file or directory
This sounds like a problem that came up in the early 2.1.8x kernels.
It was fixed around 2.1.85, I think. If you're running a kernel of
this vintage, upgrading to a current development kernel will solve the
problem.
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