Re: apt-get Failure

[michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

Michael Spang wrote:

> Sed's postinst contains this line, which fails:
>
> sudo install-info --quiet --section "General commands" "General 
> commands" /usr/share/info/sed.info
>
> The bug is apparently resolved so a fix should be on the way.
>
> Robert Tilley wrote:
>
> > The sed package causes apt-get upgrade to stop.
> >
> > root@debian-rtg:~# apt-get -f upgrade
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > The following packages have been kept back:
> >   libqt3-compat-headers libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libqt3c102-mt
> >   qt3-dev-tools
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >   console-data inkscape kernel-image-2.6.9-1-686 kvim-perl libexif10
> >   mozilla-stumbleupon python-gnome2 python2.3-gnome2 qt3-assistant 
> > qt3-doc
> >   qt3-qtconfig valgrind vim vim-common vim-doc
> > 15 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
> > 1 not fully installed or removed.
> > Need to get 0B/35.8MB of archives.
> > After unpacking 1061kB disk space will be freed.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> > Reading changelogs...
> > Preconfiguring packages ...
> > Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...
> >
> > No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
> > install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine 
> > description for `dir' entry - giving up
> > dpkg: error processing sed (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  sed
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >
> > Can someone with more knowledge than myself provide some insight into 
> > this problem?
> >
> > Bob
so what do I do meantime? I'm in the middle of switching from stable to 
unstable when it hit the `sed` issue & aborted the dist-upgrade. I guess 
i have to wait for the bug-fix to get into unstable and then try again? 
(BTW followed the link in another email but it didn't really help me)

michael