On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 03:20:50PM -0800, Art Lemasters wrote: > I am running woody. > > Running dselect in apt access mode, none of the upgrade > packages will install. I also tried running apt-get. > The error message when trying to install is > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error > code (127) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure > --apt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure *is* there and contains less than 127 > lines > How can I fix this system so that it will upgrade for > the time being?
looks like you got caught by dpkg 1.7.0 which has a broken update-alternatives, this caused /usr/bin/perl to be deleted that is the error your getting. create a /usr/bin/perl symlink yourself to fix it, usually its a link to /etc/alternatives/perl which is a link to /usr/bin/perl-5.005 or perl-5.6 something in your case (the perl upgrade is how the link got trashed) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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