On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:19:19PM -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote: > Hi, > > hen I try to upgrade my distribution from potato to woody I get the > following error. > > 97% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, <TEMPLATES> chunk 3. > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code > (29) > E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt > > Unfortunately I know nothing about Perl. I expect that more information > is needed, but I don't know what this information would be. > > The steps I took > > apt-get update (This fetched the files for stable and testing) > apt-get upgrade (this upgraded the current distribution, this worked) > apt-get dist-upgrade (this failed) > > Thanks for any help. > > Robert > > -- > Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU > [EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX >
I ran into a similar problem with Templates.pm doing this upgrade earlier this week. I found a suggestion in the list archive that got me past it - upgrade debconf to the Woody/testing version first (0.9.81). Then try your apt-get dist-upgrade again. HTH, -- Larry Holish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
