> Hello World, > > I have installed Debian 2.2rc0 on my new computer, and wanted to make an > upgrade. I use apt through dselect. In my sources.list (in /etc/apt/) I > inserted the german official mirror, made an update and entered "Install". > After having downloaded all packages, it makes a package scan, I there I > run into the following error message: > > 88% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2. > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned with an error > code (29) > .. > .. > > How can I fix this error? Any ideas?
preconfigure = some package required another to not only be unpacked, but configured first. (keyword "pre-depends") For some reason the other package failed to get configured ... Now, first I'd be tempted to say "find the pre-depended package, and find out what's wrong in its configure scripts" but, I've had that come up to me before and the errors look subtly different. It's a little more clear which app hates you, for instance. I normally stick with apt, and use console-apt for full screen work, so I don't know how to determine if dselect is helping or hurting. * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
