Re: ipmasq fails to install (help!)
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:44:42AM -0800, Ron Farrer 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!
I just upgraded this last week, and had no problems with the installation
itself for ipmasq (ipmasq_3.5.10_all.deb). "Vintage" 486.
Kenward
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