Am Freitag, den 16.Mai 2003 um 13:15 schrieb Dan Kegel: > re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=189552 > Here's what I did before I got into this jam. I had a filter problem > (stairstepping), and lamely decided to uninstall and reinstall magicfilter. > To avoid losing any local changes to /etc/magicfilter, > I renamed it /etc/magicfilter.old before doing the uninstall. > I have a feeling this blew dpkg's little mind.
You could try to 1) cp /etc/magicfilter, instead of renaming it 2) rename it, then delete/remove /var/lib/magicfilter.* and then try to reinstall it. Method 2 is dirty, but worked for me under different circumstances, if dpkg cannot find magicfilter.list, it will assume magicfilter wasn't installed; maybe this could lead dpkg to install all files correctly. And if it does, we're a little bit closer in finding the reason for this dpkg "feature" > Now I just want to know how to get magicfilter to install... maybe I > should use alien to convert it to an rpm and install it with rpm :-) Maybe, but pray that dpkg doesn't find out ;)
