Re: dpkg upgrade error
When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because
/usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not
have even existed. I created a temporary directory, made
/usr/share/doc/libdb2-util a soft-link to it, tried it again, and
everything went fine. It deleted the soft link and did whatever
it wanted to do (stuck some documentation in there, or a soft link
thereto, or something).
Can someone tell me if I made a big mistake here--or if this approach
was previously discussed on the list and I just missed it, let me know.
Thanks!
--Daniel T.
So-and-so (Colin Watson) said thus-and-such:
> 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.
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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