Ron Farrer (rbf@farrer.net) wrote: > Anyone got an idea why the ipmasq package in stable would fail to > install? I'v got an old machine (486 vintage with an AMD 5x86 processor > @133MHz) that I use as a firewall running latest stable. While > attempting to install ipmasq it goes through this series of events: > > dmz:~# apt-get clean > dmz:~# apt-get -f install ipmasq > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > ipmasq > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 47.4kB of archives. After unpacking 455kB will be used. > Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main ipmasq 3.5.10 [47.4kB] > Fetched 47.4kB in 28s (1673B/s) > Preconfiguring packages ... > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly > > The only thing I can think of is that there is some sort of previously > unseen hardware problem - but I hope that's not the case! > > Any help would be greatly appricated! Update: it's not just ipmasq. I also tried to install wget and it fails in the same way. TIA, Ron -- Email: <rbf@farrer.net> or <rbf@debian.org> Home: <http://farrer.net/~rbf/> Bellingham Linux Users Group: <http://blug.org>
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