Debian Installer - Dselect Has Stopped Working

From: Mark Hobley (markhobley_at_hotpop.deletethisbit.com)
Date: 07/18/05

  • Next message: Victor Nazarov: "Re: Debian Installer - Dselect Has Stopped Working" 
    Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:08:02 GMT

    I am using Debian Testing. This was Debian Sarge up until this month, but I
    think the system is trying to upgrade to Debian Etch, since Sarge is now
    stable.

    I am trying to run dselect to install new packages, but it fails to complete.

    It is asking me to fix the errors before running dselect again, but I don't
    know how.

    Please advise.

    Here is the tail end of the output:

    0 upgraded, 205 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    1 not fully installed or removed.
    Need to get 0B/85.5MB of archives.
    After unpacking 248MB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
    E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed?
    (Reading database ... 70 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking libc6 (from .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb) ...
    dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !
    dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb
    (--unpack):
     subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
    packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
    or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
    above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
    Press enter to continue.

    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdb1-compat:
     libdb1-compat depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13); however:
      Package libc6 is not installed.
    dpkg: error processing libdb1-compat (--configure):
     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     libdb1-compat

    installation script returned error exit status 100.
    Press <enter> to continue. 

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