Installing other packages will result in the same fashion debguy:~# aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: flashplayer-mozilla 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 3927kB of archives. After unpacking 10.0MB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 http://ftp.tw.debian.org lenny/main flashplayer-mozilla 1:10.0.12.36-0.2 [3927kB] Fetched 3927kB in 29s (134kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package flashplayer-mozilla. (Reading database ... 88215 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking flashplayer-mozilla (from .../flashplayer-mozilla_1%3a10.0.12.36-0.2_i386.deb) ... Setting up flashplayer-mozilla (1:10.0.12.36-0.2) ... update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing flashplayer-mozilla (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: flashplayer-mozilla E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up flashplayer-mozilla (1:10.0.12.36-0.2) ... update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing flashplayer-mozilla (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: flashplayer-mozilla Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Reading task descriptions... Done
I don't know if this related to my repos, so here's my *sources.list* deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main # KDE 4 backport deb http://kde4.debian.net/ lenny main # Main mirror deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian lenny main non-free contrib # Multimedia deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian-multimedia/ lenny main -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net
