Re: today's upgrade error: dpkg: error processing ed

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

This may show up twice.  I previously sent it from an unsubscribed address.

明覺 wrote:
> today's upgrade has the following error:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Setting up ed (1.3-2) ...
> install-info(/usr/share/info/ed.info.gz): no file /usr/share/info/dir,
> retrieving backup file /var/backups/infodir.bak.
> update-alternatives: error: alternative path /bin/ed doesn't exist.
> dpkg: error processing ed (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
>
> Processing triggers for menu ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  ed
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> does it matter? if yes,  how to solve it? thanks
>
>   
If you had been using apt-listbugs you would have been warned that it
would be fixed in the next version.

How to fix this is mentioned on this list also.

HTH,

Paul Scott