Re: how to debug an apt-get error?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Toshiro wrote:

> I'm running sid, I'm having a problem with the upgrade of kdm, the error just 
> says that the postinstallation script return an error (30). This message is 
> very cryptic and it's pretty much useless.
>
>  
What tool are you using to do the upgrade? apt-get upgrade? 
dist-upgrade? aptitude? synaptic? dselect? other?

> Anybody know if there is a procedure to see what is going on really? I mean, 
> I'd like to watch the execution of the postinstall script to see where is 
> failing. Is it possible to do that?
>
>  
You might try "locate kdm | grep postinst.sh" or something similar to 
find the file.

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Kent