Re: apt-get and dpkg broken

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Glen Snyder wrote:
> Hi again. Sorry to pester about this. apt-get does not work with testing
> (Woody) for me anymore. Nor does dpkg. The problem is with
> dpkg-preconfigure, I think. If I try an apt-get dist-upgrade, it exits
> with this message:
> 
> /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
> 
> I can't really use a broken dpkg to do a reinstall on dpkg. Any
> suggestions?

rm /etc/apt/apt.conf, and stop copying apt.conf files over from other
systems or from backups, or whatever it is you did.

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see shy jo