When I run dselect, and try to install packages this is what happens: packages are downloaded correctly, it has trouble removing adbbs (but i think this is unrelated to my main later problem), it gives me the 'Some errors occured while unpacking...' message, i press enter to continue, and it spits back:
/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/apt/install: /usr/bin/dpkg/: Not a directory installation script returned error exit status 100. and my remaining packages that need configuring, aren't. If I run dpkg --pending --configure manually, it seems that nothing actually is configured, either. TIA for any help, Helen