Re: ssh refuses to install (potato)
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 14:13, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
>
> This looks like a bug in the install scripts within the .deb. Did
> anything else fail as well? Mine upgraded fine but I'm on woody not
> potato. See if dpkg upgraded (it may use -t). If not then just hang on
> a day or so, the maintainer will hopefully fix it (my experience is they
> fix em very quickly) or the maintainer or the broken dependancy needs to
> have something pushed to potato.
The problem apperantly seems be that there are no precautions made in
the postinst script to use the ssh-keygen program that came with the
package. Instead it uses the first available program in the PATH.
> > The prvious, working version of ssh is this one:
> >
> > # ssh -V
> > SSH Version 1.2.27 [i686-unknown-linux], protocol version 1.5.
> > Standard version. Does not use RSAREF.
If you want to install the package just make sure to move the locally
installed version of ssh-keygen out of the way.
HTH
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