Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:30:06AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> It seems I made a `slight' mistake in dpkg 1.7.0 which broke
> update-alternatives. Combined with a perl upgrade that can have some
> nasty effects. I fixed this in dpkg 1.7.1, and I strongly advise
> everyone to immediately upgrade to that version if you have 1.7.0
> installed.
>
> You can grab it from http://incoming.debian.org/ as soon as I'm finished
> uploading it (10 minutes from now hopefully).
>
> Wichert.
Please see bug #76418 from today as well, it is against dpkg.
I followed this advice and upgraded to 1.7.1 just a few minutes ago, however
I am still receiving this error below.
gbsadler@xxx:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
6 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (127)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
The packages that are not fully installed are:
gbsadler@xxx:~$ sudo apt-get -s upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
6 packages not fully installed or removed.
Conf perl-5.6 (5.6.0-1 Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable)
Conf perl-5.6-suid (5.6.0-1 Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable)
Conf developers-reference (2.8.1 Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable)
Conf gnuplot (3.7.1p1-4 Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable, Debian:20000819/testing)
Conf perl-5.6-debug (5.6.0-1 Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable)
Conf perl-5.6-thread (5.6.0-1 Debian:unstable, Debian:unstable)
I understand from another thread you think it may be a broken perl?
If so do you recommend I purge perl 5.6 to get things 'working' again?
Thanks for your help.
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