On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > The other day I updated my system from slink to potato, and now dselect > > and apt are broken. First off, if I go into dselect and choose Access, > > Update, or Install, it exits out to the shell with the error: > > > > dselect: unable to access method script > > `/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/charset/setup': Not a directory
I fixed this problem. I looked in /usr/lib/dpkg/methods, and noticed everything in that directory was a directory except for charset, which was a text file. I moved it to /tmp, and then dselect started working again. So I guess a wrong file got installed at some point in the potato update. I just grepped in /var/lib/dpkg/info to try to find "methods/charset", but didn't find anything, so I have no idea what package broke it. Ed
