Re: apt-get problem

[Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net>]

> server:/home/mike# apt-get install postfix
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 102  not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/611kB of archives. After unpacking 540kB will be used.
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> --output-fd: unknown option
> debconf: whiptail output to the above errors, giving up!

I don't think there's anything wrong with your system.  I think there's an
error in the postfix install scripts.  You should file a bug report against
postfix.

Good luck,
Andrew.