Re: apt-get and dpkg broken

[Glen Snyder <snyderg@frontiernet.net>]

Joey Hess wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> see shy jo

Thanks for the suggestions. It turned out that the problem was with perl....I
reinstalled the perl packages and everything works fine.  dpkg-preconfigure
is a perl script.
-Glen