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Re: icecast-server install error



if the init.d script is trying to stop it, just do this:

rm /etc/init.d/icecast
touch /etc/init.d/icecast
chmod +x /etc/init.d/icecast

this will just make a dummy file that will satisfy dpkg so you can --purge
it and try reinstalling it.

-steve

On 01/10/00 @ 04:39PM, Ryan White wrote:
> 
> I seem to have an problem installing icecast-server. 
> 
> Unpacking icecast-server (from .../icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb) ...
> start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/icecast: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
> 
> 
> The error seems to be an isolated incident because I was able to install
> icecast on my computer at work. I have tried deleting the deb from
> apt/archives but that did not work either. It seems like it was trying
> to stop the service but I did not have it installed before. Has anyone
> else experienced this error? 
> 
> Is there something I can do to try and debug this further? Is there a
> --force option that I can try?
> 
> -Ryan
> 
> 
> 
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