Re: dpkg-reconfigure -a won't fix a problem

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Rodney D. Myers wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:30:06 -0600
> Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
>  
>
> > Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I ssh'd into her machine, and attempted to finish her update. The
> > > command line instructed me to "dpkg-reconfigure -a", which I have been attempting to do for the past 2 hours. It get only so far into "fixing things, then quits with the error message;
> > >
> > >
> > > ERROR: Could not find slib/require.scm in  ("/usr/share/guile/site"
> > > "/usr/share/guile/1.6" "/usr/share/guile" ".")
> > >      
> > Perhaps you should try manually installing "slib" to meet the requirement.
> >    
>
> Did that, but no good :-(
>
> this is what is installed vs. what is available;
>
> rodney@elkys-home:~$ dpkg -l | grep slib
> slib           3a1-4.2        Portable Scheme library
>  


westk[@westk03]:/home/westk> apt-file search require.scm
scm: usr/lib/scm/require.scm
scsh: usr/lib/scsh/misc/require.scm
scsh: usr/lib/scsh/misc/require.scm
slib: usr/share/slib/require.scm
slib: usr/share/slib/require.scm

So it looks like what package is generating this error expects slib to 
be in location other than where it actually is.

You might try creating a symlink: "ln -s /usr/share/slib/require.scm 
/usr/share/guile/". If that fixes your problem, you might want to file a 
bug report on whichever package this is that's coughing up blood all 
over your shiny keyboard.

--
Kent