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Re: xutils or dpkg bug - symbolic link



On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:45:45PM +0000, Lysander wrote:
> Hello, just got this error:
> 
> 
> Setting up xutils (4.0.1-12) ...
> ERROR: /usr/bin/rstartd symbolic link does not exist.
> Either the package didn't ship the symbolic link (a bug in the package),
> or dpkg failed to unpack it to the filesystem (a bug in dpkg).
> Please report the package name, version, and the contents of this
> error message to <debian-x@lists.debian.org>.
> 
> Press <ENTER> to continue. 

Please locate your xutils .deb (if you use apt, it is probably in
/var/cache/apt/archives/xutils_4.0.1-12_i386.deb), and run dpkg-deb -c on
it, like this:

dpkg-deb -c dpkg-deb -c xutils_4.0.1-12_i386.deb

Do you have the following line?

lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2000-12-12 11:44:58 ./usr/bin/rstartd -> ../X11R6/bin/rstartd

If not, we have a very strange problem, since the version I uploaded
definitely has it (I just checked).

If so, then we have a bug in dpkg.

Please reply to the debian-x mailing list so everyone can follow along.

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