RE: dpkg: `error setting ownership of symlink'

[Mike Hill <mikehill@hgeng.com>]

Mine qualifies:  it's 2.1.82.  I'll try a newer kernel.

Thanks,

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Z. Maze [SMTP:dmaze@donut.mit.edu]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 19, 1998 2:27 PM
> To:	debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:	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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