Re: Mailscanner Installation Problem-Wont Install
Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
I have a long standing problem getting Mailscanner to install on my
Dell Dimension
XPS T450 running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4.
ChatagnierL-Home:/tmp# dpkg -i mailscanner_4.38.10-1_all.deb
<snip>
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 22: db_get: command not found
<snip>
Note: the /tmp.ci/preinst part of the file path doesn't exist so I
couldn't
investigate it.
I installed mailscanner on my Sid box yesterday; did not have any
issues. (So I then promptly uninstalled it, along with all its
dependencies, as I don't need it; I was just testing the install.) While
installing it, I checked for the existence of the "preinst" directory;
it existed during the install, but once the install was complete, that
directory no longer existed.
I unpacked the .deb file manually ("ar xv
mailscanner_4.38.10-1_all.deb", followed by "tar -xvzf [each resulting
file], then looked in the "preinst" script. Here's the code that's
causing the snag:
if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt 4; then
db_get mailscanner/v3_upgrade
if [ "$RET" = "Don't upgrade" ]; then <blah blah blah>
Apparently there's a whole set of db_? files that get used in scripts,
like db_fset and db_stop, etc. This particular script is a "/bin/sh"
script, so you'd think you could just run "db_get" from the command
prompt, but all I get is "command not found". The top of the script says
to see "dh_installdeb (1)", but when I try "man dh_installdeb", I get
"No manual entry for dh_installdeb", however I did find it on Google.
That page says to also see "debhelper". Again, no man page, but Google
finds one. The list of files in this package, however, does not seem to
include db_get.
So I have no idea where the db_get file is supposed to come from. But if
we can figure that out, a reinstall of that particular package might get
you working again.
(Moved to the Debian-User list from the MailScanner list, as this seems
to me to be a Debian issue.)
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Kent West
Technology Support
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