Hello, suddenly I start to get mighty frightening error messages:
plonk:~# apt-get install --reinstall dpkg
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 2 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1656kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
String found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line
96, near "die sprintf(gettext(""
(Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 94)
(Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line
96, near "die sprintf(gettext("debconf"
(Do you need to predeclare die?)
Unquoted string "debconf" may clash with future reserved word at
/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96.
String found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line
103, near "gettext(""
(Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 96)
(Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line
104, near "$package, $confmodule"
(Might be a runaway multi-line ff string starting on line 103)
(Missing operator before dule?)
Unquoted string "dule" may clash with future reserved word at
/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 104.
syntax error at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, near "die
sprintf(gettext(""
Unmatched right curly bracket at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 108, at
end of line
syntax error at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 108, near "}"
Execution of /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure aborted due to compilation errors.
(Reading database ... 158298 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.10.26 (using .../d/dpkg/dpkg_1.10.26_i386.deb)
...
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
Setting up dpkg (1.10.26) ...
Is this problem known? What is the cause of this? I checked both the
dpkg and the gettext bug report pages but did not recognise anything similar.
All the best,
Jochen
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