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Re: apt-get fails



On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, peter karlsson wrote:

> Today when I tried running apt-get dist-upgrade, it failed on me... Anyone
> have ideas?
> 
> 
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   sgmlspm
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libforms0.89 libsgmls-perl sgmlspl
> The following packages have been kept back
>   kbd samba samba-doc smbfs
> 64 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/21.6MB of archives. After unpacking 362kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> 
> 100% [Scanning packages]
> Configuring packages ...
> /tmp/fileK7MiKx: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory
> E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (1)
> E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt

Install this package manualy with dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf*
and apt-get upgrade should do.

Martin



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