on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:50:08PM -0700, Jim Bowering (iamb@otvcablelan.net) wrote: > I managed to get dselect to get the files but when it tried to install I got > some errors > > Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line > 102. <TEMPLATES> chunk 2. > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) > E: Failure running script /usr/bin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt > > This is after I recreated the /usr/cache/apt dirs and the files pkgcache.bin > and srcpkgcache.bin rebuilt themselves. Which Debian release? IIRC, Woody/testing has a problem with either perl or debconf (or both). In the case of debconf, upgrading to the version in Sid/unstable fixes the problem. Check list archives. > Can I fix the Template.pm file? That might be an alternative fix. I'm no perl hacker though. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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