Re: dpkg stopping with an error
"J.F.Gratton" <j.f.gratton@videotron.ca> wrote:
>Hello, I'm trying to compile Firestarter 0.7.1 on a Debian (unstable)
>system. After I got most of the dependencies correctly, I still needed one
>package to be installed, which is libgnomeprint11
>
>Everytime I try to install this package, dpkg returns this:
>
>Setting up libgnomeprint11 (0.25-ximian.6) ...
>dpkg: error processing libgnomeprint11 (--configure):
>subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
>I don't know much on how dpkg works so right now I'm stumped (especially
>since this package is needed by many others !).
>
>What can I do to correct the situation ?
Look in /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnomeprint11.postinst for what might be
failing, correct it there, and 'dpkg --configure libgnomeprint11'. In
this case, my guess is that you're running into Ximian bugs #2808 [1]
and #2951 [2]; it's possible that the easiest solution for now would be
just to comment out the call(s) to gnome-font-install, although
obviously printing may not actually work properly if you do that.
[1] http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2808
[2] http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2951
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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