Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning
Make that /usr/bin/perl
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 22:30:49 Ben Monnahan wrote:
> 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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