Re: Problems with xserver-xfree86-4.0.2 and xserver-common-4.0.2

[Holger Mense <holger@project2501.de>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Andre wrote:

> Hello All !!!
>
> I want to install XFree-86-4.0.2 but i have the followig problem:
>
> when i try to install, i get the following error-message:
>
> Unpacking replacement xserver-xfree86 ...
> Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-1) ...
> dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--install):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  xserver-xfree86
>

I had a similair problem during installing. In my case, debconf could not
be configured, which was needed for configuring the xserver-package. This
happened, because perl wasn't installed correctly.  Package "perl-5.6" was
installed, but apt-get missed the package "perl-5.6-base". Try installing
"perl-5.6-base" and then run "dpkg --configure debconf" to configure
debconf and then try installing XFree86 again.


 hth, Holger

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Holger Mense