Re: Can't get vim installed...
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 07:13:15PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2007 3:47 PM, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 02:51:34PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> > > OK, aptitude seems more broken than I expected. When I perform
> > > "aptitude install ..." or select the packages with the ncurses
> > > interface and then try to install them, all the packages are
> > > downloaded, but as soon as they get downloaded, an error shows up:
> > >
> > > Preconfiguring packages ...
> > > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
> > > A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
> > > ...
> >
> > Huh, are you sure it's /usr/sbin? The dpkg binary is in /usr/bin...
>
> You are right. As I use gmail, I just read the message from hurd and
> write it by hand under linux with iceape...
>
> The message actually indicates "/usr/bin/dpkg" as you pointed out...
OK, then note down which packages are about to be installed, and try to
install them manually with dpkg, hoping there will be a more useful
error message then.
Michael
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