dpkg errors

["Ashutosh S. Rajekar" <asr@giaspna.vsnl.net.in>]

Hello,

Some problems encountered while trying to run dpkg, I don't know whether
this is documented:

---------------
sh-2.02# dpkg --configure mawk
/dev/fd/4: /usr/bin/update-alternatives: No such file or directory
...
---------------
/usr/bin/update-alternatives does exist.
Also dpkg moans while processing libc6 from the hurd distribution, saying
that the architecture (i386) is different from the system (hurd-i386)

One more funny error:
sh-2.02# perl -v
sh: /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory

Why such behaviour ?

Thanks,
--------------------
Ashutosh S. Rajekar