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Re: bash: man: command not found



thank you,


that worked

if only m$ bugs were fixed this easily or quickly.

--- Colin Watson <cjwatson@flatline.org.uk> wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                 
> [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> 
> 
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