Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning
dpkg-preconfigure is looking for /usr/sbin/perl. I created a symlink there
to the new perl. I'm not sure if this is the proper thing to do but it
worked for me.
Ben
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:21:04 Gordon Sadler wrote:
> 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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