I think this problem can be fixed with the attached diff. In short, line 133 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/frontaccounting.postinst should have $varscript enclosed in quotes.
Note - this bug caused data loss. After my failed install, I manually created the db config file in /etc/frontaccounting/db_config.php that was not created by the installer due to this bug and began using the software. The next time I ran apt-get install (to install a different package), the frontaccounting database seems to have been re-created (since the package was left un-configured due to the error). jamie
--- frontaccounting.postinst.orig 2011-05-05 13:17:26.000000000 -0400
+++ frontaccounting.postinst 2011-05-05 13:17:41.000000000 -0400
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
# Expand our config file
varscript="s#{DB_USER}#${dbuser}#g;s#{DB_PASS}#${dbpass}#g;s#{DB_HOST}#${dbserver}#g;s#{DB_NAME}#${dbname}#g;s#{DB_PREFIX}#${dbprefix}#g;s#{DB_COMPANY}#${company}#g;";
- sed $varscript < $template > $config
+ sed "$varscript" < $template > $config
chown www-data:root $config
chmod 640 $config
rm $template
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