Bug#49080: marked as done (apt: /bin/sh: dpkg-preconfig: command not found while upgrading)
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From: Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>
Subject: apt: /bin/sh: dpkg-preconfig: command not found while upgrading
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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 13:04:33 +0100
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.13
Severity: grave
here's what happens after a recent upgrade to potato
I'm not sure if this is apt's bug or dpkg's
piglet:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back
mutt
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/41.9kB of archives. After unpacking 1024B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
/bin/sh: dpkg-preconfig: command not found
E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt --priority=low --frontend=dialog returned an error code (127)
E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt --priority=low --frontend=dialog
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux piglet 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-1 The GNU stdc++ library
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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
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Subject: Re: apt tries to execute dpkg-preconfig
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On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> package while not depending on it... Apt does not seem to work without
> debconf, so why shouldn't it depend on it?
If you don't want to run it then don't put it in your configuration file.
If you used the sample config file without heeding the large warning at
the top then 'woops'
Jason
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