This one time, at band camp, vanillicat said: > I've been unsuccessfully trying to install sslwrap, and have been > getting the following errors: > > > > # apt-get install sslwrap > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Sorry, sslwrap is already the newest version. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 1 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Setting up sslwrap (2.0.6-5) ... > Missing certification file, /etc/sslwrap/server.pem! > dpkg: error processing sslwrap (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > sslwrap > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Doing a dpkg-reconfigure sslwrap gives me this: > > # dpkg-reconfigure sslwrap > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: sslwrap is not fully installed > > And finally, trying to get an apt-get remove --purge sslwrap gives me > the following: > > # apt-get remove --purge sslwrap > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > sslwrap* > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 1 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 147kB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > (Reading database ... 68628 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing sslwrap ... > Missing certification file, /etc/sslwrap/server.pem! > dpkg: error processing sslwrap (--purge): > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > Missing certification file, /etc/sslwrap/server.pem! > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > sslwrap > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > The only file present under /etc/sslwrap is called debian_config > > Renaming debian_config, or even renaming /etc/sslwrap entirely only > gives me other unrecoverable errors. I'm apparently stuck with a broken > package on my system, and can neither install or remove it. I think > this is a bug that should be filed with the grave severity tag, but > wanted to make sure. I also am posting to see if perhaps there is > something wrong with the configuration on my machine, so as not to waste > the time of the sslwrap packager. Thanks for any help you can offer. > I don't know how to fix the install error, but to purge it, try: touch /etc/sslwrap/server.pem and retry dpkg -P sslwrap HTH, Steve -- <Knghtbrd> aggh! <Knghtbrd> MAKE IT STOP! <Knghtbrd> MAKE IT STOP!!
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