Package installation problems with apt-get and dpkg on a Sarge box.
Hi there.
Having a problem with a package installation, and I would appreciate some pointers.
Running Sarge on a HP pc, P4, 256 Mb ram, ide disc etc.
So, in this case, want to install freeswan:
<quote>
The following NEW packages will be installed:
freeswan
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1951kB of archives.
After unpacking 5473kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
</quote>
But, here it stops and hangs for several minutes (didn't feel like waiting anymore so broke it with Ctrl+c.
Edited this file:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 Nov 22 05:51 /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
and remarked this line:
# DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};
Which took me a step further:
<quote>
The following NEW packages will be installed:
freeswan
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1951kB of archives.
After unpacking 5473kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 13604 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking freeswan (from .../freeswan_2.04-11.3_i386.deb) ...
</quote>
But then it hangs again. Looking at top when running the above commands I have these two processes:
2727 root 15 0
7208 7204 1724 S 56.7 1.9 1:50.20
frontend
2735 root 15 0
1112 1108 928 R 43.4 0.3 1:20.77 config
I have tried to apt-get autoclean, apt-get -f install etc, but same thing.
Then I tried to download the package manually from another mirror and
ran dpkg -i, but same thing again, 'hangs' with the above two processes
taking up too many resources.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Niklas
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