Re: Problems installing ncurses-base

[Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote:

> Any hints what the following error message mean? I am trying to install
> ncurses-base.
> 
> dpkg: error processing ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb (--install):
>  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb
> 
> How can I correct the problem or even understand the problem.

How to understand the problem:

ar x ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb control.tar.gz
tar xzvf control.tar.gz preinst

and see why the script preinst does exit with an error status.