On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:34, Chris McCormick wrote:
> >You could try comparing straces of the dpkg command when it works and
> >when it doesn't work
> >
> >strace -fF dpkg -X packagename.deb /path/to/testdir 2>strace.output
>
> Excellent suggestion - at the moment I can't get it to run correctly ever
> though. :(
>
> running:
> strace -fF dpkg --unpack libc6_2.1.3-24_i386.deb
> doesn't tell me anything i can understand. if someone more knowledgable
> wants to look at the copy of the output i can send it to them.
Can you dump it on a webpage and post the URL to the list?