Andrej Prsa wrote: > when updating xlibs to 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6_all.deb on debian testing box, > aptitude fails with the following message: > > dpkg: error > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_6.8.2.dfsg.1-6_all.deb > (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit > status 1 /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: line 886: > replace_conffile_with_symlink_rollback: command not found > > I took a look at the debian/postinst file and indeed there is a > trivial naming mismatch (remove_conffile_with_symlink_rollback > instead of replace_conffile_with_symlink_rollback). Is there a way to > extract the binary package, fix the problem and repackage it without > the hussle of building it from source? It's a trivial fixup, yet it > keeps a bunch of other packages from being updated, so I'd really like > to resolve this as soon as possible.
Just fix the postinst and run dpkg --configure -a -- see shy jo
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