Re: Debian Installer - Dselect Has Stopped Working

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

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    In comp.os.linux Victor Nazarov <vir@comtv.ru> wrote:

    > There is some problem with packages database.

    I've had this happen before on another machine. Using Debian Sarge ("testing")
    I had a package install that did not work. I think a library was screwed. The
    package was updated a week later and the library changed version. I think
    there was a package change name because the library had a version number in
    its name, I think. Dselect stopped working,so I reformatted the hard drive,
    and rebuilt the entire system. I don't really want to do that again, so I hope
    that there is some way of fixing the package database.

    > Try using some other tool
    > rather then dselect. Try to update dselect:
    > # apt-get update
    > # apt-get install dselect
    >

    Hmmm. That gives the same sort of error, dselect depends on libc6
    libc6 is not installed.

    I also tried to install libc6:

    apt-get install libc6
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Suggested packages:
      glibc-doc
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      libc6
    0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    1 not fully installed or removed.
    Need to get 0B/4899kB of archives.
    After unpacking 15.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
    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) 

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