tag 182632 + moreinfo
thanks
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:55:12PM +0000, Lazarus Long wrote:
> Package: xterm
What version of xterm are you using?
$ dpkg -l xterm
will tell you.
> Severity: normal
>
> No way to know which of the X packages is causing this, but xterm was
> part of the run. (All the X packages were install'ed together.)
>
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> The readlink command was not found. Please install version 1.13.1 or later of
> the debianutils package.
> The readlink command was not found. Please install version 1.13.1 or later of
> the debianutils package.
> The readlink command was not found. Please install version 1.13.1 or later of
> the debianutils package.
> (Reading database ...
>
> ii debianutils 2.3.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian
>
> Sid, today's dinstall run.
>
> $ dlocate readlink
> debianutils: /bin/readlink
>
> Some debconf problem, apparently.
No, the message comes from the following bit of shell script:
# we require a readlink command or shell function
if ! which readlink > /dev/null 2>&1; then
message "The readlink command was not found. Please install version" \
"1.13.1 or later of the debianutils package."
readlink () {
# returns what symlink in $1 actually points to
perl -e '$l = shift; exit 1 unless -l $l; $r = readlink $l; exit 1 unless $r; print "$r\n"' $1;
}
fi
As you can see, the output is just a warning message, and since you saw
no error messages from Perl, it's likely everything executed just fine.
What's interesting is that "which" is failing to find an executable in
/bin/readlink.
1) What's your $PATH in a shell with the same environment as the one in
which you upgraded xterm?
2) What are the file permissions on /bin/readlink?
3) What's the output of "which readlink" in a shell with the same
environment as the one in which you upgraded xterm?
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