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Hello. I'm trying to do an apt-get dist-upgrade. I get the error below.
I did the apt-get update before this and I got errors when it came to
the security updates section. What is going wrong and how do I fix this?

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bind9-host debconf-utils groff-base html2text ifupdown ipchains klogd
  libcupsys2 libdns5 libfreetype6 libisc4 libjpeg62 libldap2 liblwres1
  libpaperg libpcap0 libpcre3 libsasl7 libssl0.9.6 libtiff3g libxaw6
net-tools
  netkit-inetd netkit-ping perl-doc xlibs 
The following packages have been kept back
  debian-policy lynx-ssl 
111 packages upgraded, 26 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not
upgraded.
21 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/56.8MB of archives. After unpacking 44.3MB will be used.
(Reading database ... 19139 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ncurses-base 5.0-6.0potato1 (using
.../ncurses-base_5.2.20020112a-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ncurses-base ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-base_5.2.20020112a-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 error creating hard link `./etc/terminfo/r/rxvt-m': No such file or
directory
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-base_5.2.20020112a-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)




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