Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-29 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:25:39AM -0700, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: > > When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because > > /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not > > have even existed. I created a t

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:25:39AM -0700, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: > When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because > /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not > have even existed. I created a temporary directory, made > /usr/share/doc/libdb2-u

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-27 Thread David Gardi
Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: >When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because >/usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not >have even existed. I created a temporary directory, made >/usr/share/doc/libdb2-util a soft-link to it, tried it again, and >

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-27 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not have even existed. I created a temporary directory, made /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util a soft-link to it, tried it again, and everything went fine. It deleted the soft

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:03:06AM +0100, David Gardi wrote: > Preparing to replace libdb2-util 2:2.7.7.0-2 (using > .../libdb2-util_2%3a2.7.7.0-3_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb2-util_2%3a2.7.7.0-3_i386.deb (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script

dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-26 Thread David Gardi
Hi, I've just done an apt-get upgrade, and this is the error. Unpacking replacement gkrellmms ... Preparing to replace libdb2-util 2:2.7.7.0-2 (using .../libdb2-util_2%3a2.7.7.0-3_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb2-util_2%3a2.7.7.0-3_i386.deb (--unpack): subpro