Squirrelmail in Woody - installation fails

[Chris Searle <debian@chrissearle.org>]

Have woody running (together with security and proposed updates).

apt-get install squirrelmail

returns

Setting up squirrelmail (1.2.6-1.3) ...
Installing default squirrelmail config.
cp: cannot stat `/etc/squirrelmail/config_default.php': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing squirrelmail (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1



Ran a search for the cannot stat line on google - the only return was
to try touching the missing file:

touch /etc/squirrelmail/config_default.php

Then running the apt-get install squirrelmail line gives:

Setting up squirrelmail (1.2.6-1.3) ...
Installing default squirrelmail config.
Run /etc/squirrelmail/conf.pl to reconfigure squirrelmail.


However:

# ls /etc/squirrelmail/
config.php  config_default.php

No conf.pl.

Have tried removing the cached .deb and re-running - just in case the
d/l was a dud - but same problem.

What am I doing wrong here?

Didn't see anything particularly appropriate on bugs.debian.org.

-- 
Chris Searle