I have been happily using apt-get to maintain a laptop at the `unstable' distributon for a few weeks with no real problems. However I am having trouble with updates of xbase and xlib6. It looks as though `getreal' is really missing (I can find no mention of it anywhere), or maybe there is an error in a script. Any suggestions? Here is a typical transcript (mostly dpkg I guess).
Richard Melrose *** The following extra packages will be installed: xlib6 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0b/907k of archives. After unpacking 5252k will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 44195 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xbase 3.3.2.3a-1 (using xbase_3.3.2.3a-3.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: getreal: command not found dpkg: error processing xbase_3.3.2.3a-3.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127 Preparing to replace xlib6 3.3.2.3a-1 (using xlib6_3.3.2.3a-3.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: getreal: command not found dpkg: error processing xlib6_3.3.2.3a-3.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: xbase_3.3.2.3a-3.deb xlib6_3.3.2.3a-3.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code
