Re: dpkg stopping with an error

["J.F.Gratton" <j.f.gratton@videotron.ca>]

Colin, thanks for the answer. You actually answered other questions I'd 
thought to leave for another post :)

I'll try that once I get my system fully operational (right now I've tons 
of other problems to solve before getting to libgnomeprint11. The joys of 
reinstalling <sigh>.

Thanks again.

Jeff




At 20:17 2001-05-27 +0100, you wrote:
> "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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