On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 04:07:34PM +0200, Fabian Hugelshofer wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm having problems upgrading Mailscanner from Woody to Sarge. I did a
> dist-upgrade for my system which broke (because of Mailscanner) without
> upgrading all packages. Further i removed Mailscanner to complete
> dist-upgrade. Mailscanner can't still be installed.
>
> The Output is:
>
> # aptitude -f install mailscanner
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> mailscanner
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/1936kB of archives. After unpacking 5837kB will be used.
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 24043 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking mailscanner (from .../mailscanner_4.41.3-2_all.deb) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 22: db_get: command not found
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/mailscanner_4.41.3-2_all.deb (--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/mailscanner_4.41.3-2_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
>
> I don't know where to get db_get. It isn't on the System (#db_get
> returns "command not found") and i could not lokate a package with
> #apt-file search db_get.
> Asking Google didn't bring any helpful information eighter.
>
Hi Fabian,
db_get is a shell script in '/usr/share/debconf/confmodule'.
It is part of the 'debconf' package. My 'sid' version is 1.4.50. Not
sure what sarge is supposed to have.
so:
apt-get install debconf
should fix this problem.
Also, make sure to file a bug report or tell someone on debian-devel
list.
Cheers,
Kev
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