Re: bash: man: command not found

[cjwatson@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Shriram Shrikumar <prince_shri@yahoo.com> wrote:
>--- Joost Kooij <joost@topaz.mdcc.cx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:34:01PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
>> > was missing man-db, however, on trying to install, it shows the
>> > following error message
>> > 
>> > trying to overwrite directory '/usr/share/locale/de' in package
>> > texinfo with nondirectory
>> > 
>> > any ideas ?
>> 
>> Can you give more error output?
>
>Unpacking man-db (from man-db_2.3.18-8_i386.deb) ...
>dpkg: error processing man-db_2.3.18-8_i386.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite directory '/usr/share/locale/de' in package
>texinfo with nondirectory
>dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>Errors were encountered while processing:
>man_db_2.3.18-8_i386.deb

IIRC, this was a bug in dpkg. Upgrade it to at least 1.9.7 and you
should be fine.

dpkg (1.9.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * If a new file doesn't exist on disk, but is a going to be installed as
    a directory, then don't error out.  Closes: Bug#17381.
  [...]

 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Mon, 28 May 2001 18:59:03 -0500

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]