The problems I have are with psnfss-5.2-1.deb and the bind-4.9.3-P1-2.deb during the dselect installation. psnfss-5.2-1.deb throws out at me the following lines during unpacking:
Unpacking psnfss (from .../debian/stable/binary/tex/psnfss-5.2-1.deb) ... dpkg - warning, overriding problem because you used --force: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/OMLhlh.fd', which is alsot dpkg - warning, overriding problem because you used --force: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/OMShlh.fd', which is alsot dpkg: error processing /root/debian/stable/binary/tex/psnfss-5.2-1.deb (--insta: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive I ftp'd it from two mirrors and debian.org as well, still ended with the same problem. Since all I used was dselect on the package I can only assume it would be a structural error with the package itself. With the bind package: /var/lib/dpkg/info/bind.postinst: _: command not found dpkg: error processing bind (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 I would think this would also to be a distribution error. I surely haven't had much experience with the details of dpkg or dselect, inevitably that's where I am headed. But until I become the true debian package mastermind, has anyone successfully installed (or come into error with) psnfss-5.2-1.deb? And, are the scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/info from the packages themselves (I could only imagine they would be) or do they live somewhere else? thanks, travis