Re: dpkg-preconfigure: No such file - pls help!

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Gyulai Mihaly wrote:
> I partially upgraded my glibc2 from 2.0.7 to 2.1.2,  
> I received an error message at upgrading 'libc6-dev'.
> After that my system was broken (it's a slink version).
> I can't compile anything now with gcc.
> 
> Now I try to upgrade to potato. I can use dselect, but after 
> 'Install' I receive the following message:
> 
>   /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file

Edit /etc/apt/apt.conf and comment out or delete the line with
dpkg-preconfigure in it.

It's an easy fix but I'm much more interested in how you got into this
state. Do you have debconf or debconf-tiny installed? Have you ever
copied /etc/apt/apt.conf over to this system from some other system that
is already running potato? What error message did you receive when
upgrading libc6-dev?

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see shy jo