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Re: perl broken install (bo)



On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Marco Frattola wrote:
> installing bo on a rex machine left me with this problem: perl won't install,
> saying that "subprocess post install script returned error 123" or something
> like this. What's error 123 and how can I fix it? without perl, other packages
> are left uninstallable.

I've seen this happen in a buzz -> hamm upgrade too. You will have to look
through the postinst for perl and find out where it's dying.

"rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/perl.postinst" is always a possibility,
although not advised..

Hamish
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