Re: APT-GET Upgrade problem

[DonM]

On Monday 16 January 2006 10:18 am, Don wrote:
> Ok so I had issues with my Debian system and got myself into a bind.
> Reloaded from woody CD's and ended up with mouse issues I could not fix.
> Threw in the towel and reloaded once again.  Mouse works fine but now I
> have a problem in APT.  When attempting to upgrade to the latest versions
> of loaded packages (heading to Sarge then to Kernel update) I get the
> following:
>
> Preconfiguring packages ...
>
> Info: dictionaries-common/default-ispell is already set to
>
> [american (American English)]. Preserving it.
>
> Info: dictionaries-common/default-wordlist is already set to
>
> [american (American English)]. Preserving it.
>
> dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
>
> dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
>
> dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
>
> dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
>
> dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
>
> NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and
> /sbin.
>
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>
>
>
> However when I check the Root .profile I have the following entry for my
> Path:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/
>X 11
>
> export PATH
>
> This contains everything that apt-get is stating should be there.  Now
> what?
>
>
>
> Don

Did a google search (I know - I should have done that first) and found a 
reference to this exact problem  Opened a root terminal and simply entered 
the path even though it was there originally and it worked.  Not sure WHY it 
worked, but it did.

Don


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Missing in plain sight?

[DonM]

Ok so I have a working version of Sarge with a 2.4.27 kernel.

I attempted to install Xastir and got an error about missing X.  Remembered 
that I had not installed all the required stuff so began with the easy stuff 
and tried to install LessTif.  However that also errored out stating that I 
needed a version of X greater than 5. 

So I did an apt-get and every option returns that I have the latest version 
installed.

I checked and in my /etc/X11 it is listed as being R6.

So, if this appears to be installed, and Sarge thinks its installed, why am I 
getting these errors?  Is it possible to have a working Xserver installation 
that is incomplete? Reporting wrong version?

Don


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