Willi, I did these steps again (with "update") and I get the same error.
Any other thoughts? Randy On 21 May 2001 19:12:13 +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:03:11AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > I am trying to get an installation of the "testing" branch > > (Woody) installed on one of my machines. I have performed the > > following steps: > > > > * Clean install of 2.2r2 (from CDROM) > > > > * apt-get update > > > > * apt-get upgrade > > > > Then I changed /etc/atp/sources.list to point to "testing" > > instead of "stable" > > first > * apt-get update > then > > > * apt-get upgrade > > > > * reboot > > > > (everything is fine up to this point) > > > > * apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > All of the packages downloaded (it seems) and I now > > get the following error message: > > > > 99% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, <TEMPLATES> check 3. > > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) > > E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt > > Regards, Willi > > -- > ...is a registered (#210445) user of:####Debian 2.2r3 GNU/Linux > icq# 49564994###AIM: wdyck###########GnuPG-Key: 1024D/8BFCA69B > Fingerprint: DAD2 E564 B725 E6A3 5A0F 1497 4411 F30F 8BFC A69B