Re: apt-get error

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "kmself" == kmself  <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:

    kmself> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:34:33PM -0500, Pascal Hos
    kmself> (paashaas@rice.edu) wrote:
    >> Since yesterday I keep getting the following error when running
    >> apt-get upgrade:
    >> 
    >> Fetched 9272kB in 1m19s (117kB/s) 11% [Scanning
    >> packages]Template does not contain a Template: line at
    >> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 109, <TEMPLATES>
    >> chunk 42.  E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
    >> returned an error code (29) E: Failure running script
    >> /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
    >> 
    >> What is happening? I have not touched the file Template.pm.

    kmself> File a bug report to the package maintainer.

    kmself> You can see the script in question in
    kmself> /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package-name>preinst

Not until after the package has been installed.

However, in this the script would be

/var/lib/dpkg/info/<package-name>.config

and the file with the error would be:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/<package-name>.templates

but like I said, only after the package is installed.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>