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Re: anyone care to assist (Debianers of otherwise)

Jonathan Walther (dibos@starnetc.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:50:47 -0700 (PDT)

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Yeah. the X stuff was recently upgraded. I know the guy who maintains the
X packages. He's a fairly new debian developer. He's still working on
his "smooth upgrade" skills. To be fair, X is one of the hardest packages
to upgrade smoothly.

Jonathan

It's been said I was Zorros maniacal twin brother -- Juanito Peligros (1778)

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Geoff Smith wrote:

>
> Upgrading my Slink debian package (xlib6g in particular) using dselect, I
> ran into a little snag, which I think is Debian related. Can someone
> using Debian or not tell me what the following error messages mean, or
>
>
> Processing downloaded files...(for corrupt/old/partial)
> dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g-dev_3.3.2.3a-3.deb
> dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g_3.3.2.3a-3.deb
> dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/xbase_3.3.2.3a-3.deb
> dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/oldlibs/xlib6_3.3.2.3a-3.deb
> dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/games/quake-lib_1.06-6.deb
>
> Do you want to install the files fetched [y]:
> Installing files...
> (Reading database ... 27863 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace xlib6g-dev 3.3.2.3a-1 (using
> ..../x11/xlib6g-dev_3.3.2.3a-
> deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement xlib6g-dev ...
> dpkg: error processing
> debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g-dev_3
> ..2.3a-3.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin/gccmakedep', which is also in package
> xba
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Preparing to replace xlib6g 3.3.2.3a-1 (using
> ..../x11/xlib6g_3.3.2.3a-3.deb) .
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: getreal: command not found
> dpkg: error processing
> debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g_3.3.2
> a-3.deb (--install):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127
> Preparing to replace xbase 3.3.2.3a-1 (using .../x11/xbase_3.3.2.3a-3.deb)
> ....
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: getreal: command not found
> dpkg: error processing
> debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/xbase_3.3.2.
> -3.deb (--install):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127
> Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration...Starting X display
> manager:
> m already running.
> rm: /etc/X11/no-restart-daemons: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Preparing to replace xlib6 3.3.2.3a-1 (using
> ..../oldlibs/xlib6_3.3.2.3a-3.deb)
> ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: getreal: command not found
> dpkg: error processing
> debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/oldlibs/xlib6_3.
> 2.3a-3.deb (--install):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127
> Skipping deselected package quake-lib.
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g-dev_3.3.2.3a-3.deb
> debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g_3.3.2.3a-3.deb
> debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/xbase_3.3.2.3a-3.deb
> debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/oldlibs/xlib6_3.3.2.3a-3.deb
>
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Geoff Smith
>
>

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