dkpg error! What should I do?

[Pete Willemsen <willemsn@cs.uiowa.edu>]

Hello,

I'm fairly new to Debian, and I'm currently attempting to install the
Debian distribution on my Mac Centris 650.  And, yes, I do realize
this is very unstable.

Nonetheless, my question concerns an error that I'm receiving when
using dselect and dkpg.  I've managed to install most of the packages
I need without problem using dselect, and I do have a working system.
It's just that on a few packages ('at' for instance), I get errors
returned from dpkg.  Here's an excerpt:

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% dpkg --install /Debian/stable/m68k-binary/admin/at_3.1.8-2.1.deb
(Reading database...
Unpacking at (from .../admin/at_3.1.8-2.1.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /Debian/stable/m68k-binary/admin/at_3.1.8-2.1.deb (--install):
 error setting ownership of symlink 'usr/man/man1/batch.1.gz':
           No such file or directory
Errors were encounterd while processing:
/Debian/stable/m68k-binary/admin/at_3.1.8-2.1.deb
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I'm stumped as to what I can do, if this is even important.  However,
it does appear that 'at' was not installed due to this error

So, I examined the package using dpkg --extract ..., and I did see the
batch.1.gz man page.


My question: What should I do to get this package to install?  Any
help is greatly appreciated!


Thanks,
Pete
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Pete Willemsen        Department of Comp. Sci.
willemsn@cs.uiowa.edu       University of Iowa
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