Package: man-db Version: 2.4.2-21 Severity: normal First purge man-db, then reinstall it. No matter what man-db/install-setuid is, one could still get the failure at
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null --startas \ /usr/bin/mandb --oknodo --chuid man -- --no-purge Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man... Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man8'. Wait...mandb: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied Because whatever directory you are attempting to write to already exists and is owned by root I bet. So dpkg bombs out. Therefore your installation script must consider this case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]