Re: Error on upgrade..............
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 11:29:25PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:41:25AM +1100, Charlie wrote:
> > Debian Jessie, tried to upgrade today and received this message:
> >
> > Extracting templates from packages: 100%
> > Preconfiguring packages ...
> > Setting up libdb5.3:i386 (5.3.28-7~deb8u1) ...
> > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-13) ...
> > (Reading database ... 240422 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Preparing to unpack .../libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb ...
> > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path
> > dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb (--unpack):
> > subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path
> > dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> > subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> > Preparing to unpack .../libgpg-error0_1.17-3_i386.deb ...
> > Unpacking libgpg-error0:i386 (1.17-3) over (1.16-1) ...
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >
> > What do I have to delete to get this to go away?
>
> rm /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb
>
> then
>
> apt-get -f install
Does that fix it? I wonder what's going on there then? Weird!
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