apt-get upgrade, bad news
you're in a maze of twisted little twisted passages, all twisted.
this is so cool--i can't purge doc-linux-html. can't install.
can't do nothin'.
0 packages upgraded,
0 newly installed,
0 to remove and
110 not upgraded. (aka 'held back' according to apt-get)
why the hell doc-linux-html should be a lynchpin module i'll never
know... that's where it dies, and i can't get past it:
(i've edited a bit for readability: #### is the root prompt followed
by various futile comands, with newlines were inserted above each for
visual spacing...)
#### apt-get upgrade
<<<
yada yada, most seems to go smoothly, but i do get tons-o-warnings
and errors including multiples of each of these:
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libMesaGLw.so (No such file or
directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libMesaGLwM.so (No such file or
directory), skipping
dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
warning: ignoring unknown format `postscript' at
/usr/sbin/install-docs line 627, <IN> chunk 20.
a few thousand lines later, i get...
>>>
Errors were encountered while processing:
doc-linux-html
#### dpkg --pending --configure
Setting up doc-linux-html (2000.03-1) ...
dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
doc-linux-html
#### dpkg -i doc-linux-html
dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
doc-linux-html
#### dpkg --purge doc-linux-html
(Reading database ... 32163 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing doc-linux-html ...
dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--purge):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
doc-linux-html
#### dpkg --purge doc-linux-html
(Reading database ... 32163 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing doc-linux-html ...
dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--purge):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
doc-linux-html
#### dpkg -i doc-linux-html
dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
doc-linux-html
#### apt-get install doc-linux-html
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, doc-linux-html is already the newest version
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 110 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up doc-linux-html (2000.03-1) ...
dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
doc-linux-html
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
===
seems like all those repetetive messages about not finding
"libMesaGLw*.so" warrant a bit of looking-into. so i try
#### dpkg -S libMesaGLw
dpkg: *libMesaGLw* not found.
imagine my relief at learning that there actually IS no libMesaGLw
for the upgrade routine to not find.
i am not going insane. i am THERE. i'm looking for a return ticket.
any travel agents out there? barring that, how 'bout a rope--either
with a lifesaver or noose on the end of it?
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