Re: xbase upgrade
This won't really help, but there was a message a week or more ago
suggesting that people using unstable put the x packages in 'hold' status
unless they were exceedingly brave.
Bob
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Richard B. Melrose wrote:
> I have been happily using apt-get to maintain a laptop at the `unstable'
> distributon for a few weeks with no real problems. However I am having
> trouble with updates of xbase and xlib6. It looks as though `getreal' is
> really missing (I can find no mention of it anywhere), or maybe there is an
> error in a script. Any suggestions? Here is a typical transcript (mostly
> dpkg I guess).
>
> Richard Melrose
>
> ***
>
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> xlib6
> 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> 2 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0b/907k of archives. After unpacking 5252k will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> (Reading database ... 44195 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace xbase 3.3.2.3a-1 (using xbase_3.3.2.3a-3.deb) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: getreal: command not found
> dpkg: error processing xbase_3.3.2.3a-3.deb (--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127
> Preparing to replace xlib6 3.3.2.3a-1 (using xlib6_3.3.2.3a-3.deb) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: getreal: command not found
> dpkg: error processing xlib6_3.3.2.3a-3.deb (--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> xbase_3.3.2.3a-3.deb
> xlib6_3.3.2.3a-3.deb
> E: Sub-process returned an error code
>
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