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Re: how to debug an apt-get error?



On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 02:45:04PM -0300, 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.

That error is from debconf. Run with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer set in the
environment for more verbose output.

Trying to use things like 'sh -x' will be complicated here because of
the way the debconf confmodule re-executes the calling script.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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