Re: broken dependencies?
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:07:50AM +1000, Nathan Hurst wrote:
> > I got this weird error while trying to dist-upgrade a fairly fresh system.
> >
> > Setting up xutils (4.0.2-13) ...
> > ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rstart 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>.
>
> "Fairly fresh system" isn't quite the level of detail I'm looking for.
>
> What is the output of
>
> dpkg --listfiles xutils | grep X11R6/bin/rstart
>
> on your system?
Chiton:~# dpkg --listfiles xutils | grep X11R6/bin/rstart
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `xutils' missing,
assuming package has no files currently installed.
The machine is uptodate wrt apt-get update.
njh
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