FYI. I was able to fix this problem.
The statoverride file resides in /var/lib/dpkg For some reason, it had the following entry: hplip root 755 /var/run/hplip The file statoverride-old was empty I performed radical surgery and made statoverride-old into statoverride. So, the maintainer of hplip might want to look at this. I'm pasting my original post for debian-devel ----------------- I'm using a 32-bit chroot on an amd64 etch box. I have installed cups and associated packages, especially the hplip. Now, when I'm installing perl, I get the error: dpkg: syntax error: unknown user `hplip' in statoverride file What the ?? ------------ Art Edwards -- Arthur H. Edwards Senior Research Physicist Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL/VSSE Bldg. 914 3550 Aberdeen Ave. SE KAFB, NM 87117-5776 (505) 853-6042 (O) (505) 463-6722 (C) (505) 846-2290 (F) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
