Re: dpkg upgrade error

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:03:06AM +0100, David Gardi wrote:
> Preparing to replace libdb2-util 2:2.7.7.0-2 (using 
> .../libdb2-util_2%3a2.7.7.0-3_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb2-util_2%3a2.7.7.0-3_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Known bug in libdb2-util. You can hack the .deb to fix its preinst
script if you're comfortable with doing that, but you're probably better
off putting libdb2* on hold.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]