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Re: dselect fails to install mozilla-browser after upgrade to woody



On September 20, 2002 08:28 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:17:22PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote:
>
> I think your debconf database is broke in someway. Running the script
> "/usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl" may help.
>
> You could ask debconf package maintainer. In past he has sometimes
> asked for copies of broken databases first. These are located in
> /var/cache/debconf. Back these up before running the script.
>
> Backing up and moving aside /var/cache/debconf/config.dat and
> /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat may also help. However, I think this would
> wipe out all configuration values debconf maintains to facilitate upgrades.
>
> [snip]

Running /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl completed with no ouput.

apt-get install mozilla-browser then produced the same output as before.

One other piece of information - I just realized that debconf has emailed to 
root the following message each time I attempted to install mozilla-browser.  
I haven't acted on it, as I'm not sure what it means.  

At this point should I submit the bug report, wait for it to be fixed in a 
new version of mozilla-browser, then try again?  This wouldn't be too big a 
deal as I have a working Konqueror in the meantime.


=============forwarded message================================

Previous mozilla could set LD_PRELOAD for gdkxft with wrapper script, but
there are some problems with preloading libgdkxft, so now mozilla will
*not* touch LD_PRELOAD value in script. If you still want to use gdkxft,
please set up LD_PRELOAD value by your own hand.

And now, mozilla does not need gdkxft support for Anti-Aliasing text. You
can use FreeType2 support in mozilla instead of gdkxft for Anti-Aliasing.
for more, see also /usr/share/doc/mozilla-browser/enabling_truetype.html

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