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Re: bug in xlibs?



On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:21:36PM +0200, Gerald Klinkl wrote:
> -----------
> Clever:/home/gerald# apt-get install --reinstall xlibs
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 4 
>  not upgraded.
> 117 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> Setting up xlibs (4.2.1-6) ...
> ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults 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 text of the above error
> message(s) to <debian-x@lists.debian.org>.
> dpkg: error processing xlibs (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk1.2:
>  libgtk1.2 depends on xlibs (>> 4.1.0); however:
>   Package xlibs is not configured yet.

There is probably something else on your system which has unpacked that
directory.

Try a "dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults".

Later versions of the xlibs package have an improved error reporting
procedure in this scenario.

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