On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Magnus Therning wrote:
> Installing mixmaster fails:
>
> Setting up mixmaster (3.0b2-5) ...
> warning: --update given but /var/lib/mixmaster does not exist
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/mixmaster/Mix': No such file or
> directory
> dpkg: error processing mixmaster (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> mixmaster
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> One possible fix would be to use 'mkdir -p' in the postinst script.
Mixmaster's home directory is created when the user is created.
Is it possible you removed /var/lib/mixmaster manually some time without
also removing the mixmaster user?
Peter
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