On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 04:05:24PM -0500, icewind0 wrote: > 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 Bug 129807 ? http://bugs.debian.org/129807 sounds like a problem with the ncurses package, not apt. > 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) -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: ...and scantily clad females, of course. Who cares if it's below zero outside. -- Linus Torvalds
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