Re: apt 0.3.7 breaks dselect?
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:23:08 -0500 (EST), Brian Servis
<servis@purdue.edu> wrote:
>*- On 23 Jun, Brian Greenfield wrote about "apt 0.3.7 breaks dselect?"
>> Hi
>>
>> I've just installed apt 0.3.7slink0 from netgod.net and I
>> can no longer use the apt method of dselect. Update and
>> Select work OK, and Install will fetch the required files
>> but won't configure them. The error message given is:
>>
>>>/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/apt/install: /usr/bin/dpkg/: Not a directory
>>
>> I presume the double-slash is the problem, but I can't find
>> out where this comes from.
>>
>
>This error message says the the program
>/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/apt/install can not find the directory
>/usr/bin/dpkg/. The double slash is not a problem the slash on the end
>of /usr/bin/dpkg/ is.
>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
>Nope, works fine for me. =)
Funnily enough, it seems to be working for me too, now. At
least, I couldn't reproduce the problem when I was about to
test a fix that had been emailed to me[1].
I've got a strange mix of local, standard and
not-so-standard debs. I guess that's what my problem was/is.
PS
Brian, if you follow-up this post, please do so only to the
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[1]
Brad mailed and said:
> i have the same problem, although packages seem to configure
> fine... The problem (as has been noted) is the / at the end of
> "/usr/bin/dpkg/". It seems to be a typo or thinko in the
> /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install file, you just have to remove
> the / from the "DPKG Dir::Bin::dpkg/" on line 10.
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