On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > Any hints what the following error message mean? I am trying to install > > ncurses-base. > > > > dpkg: error processing ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb (--install): > > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb > > > > How can I correct the problem or even understand the problem. > > How to understand the problem: > > ar x ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb control.tar.gz > tar xzvf control.tar.gz preinst > > and see why the script preinst does exit with an error status. I don't know how you got to know so much :)
I did as you said and ran the script ./preinst. The script ./preinst ran fine with no error messages but I stll get error messages when I try to use dpkg -i. I think it may have something to do with the fact that I was trying to upgrade to slink and I was not successful as libc6u could not install. Thank a lot for your help so far. /------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 /------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
