On 18/1/2000 Christopher S. Swingley wrote:
I've been keeping up with potato fairly regularly (two or three times
a week), and occasionally I wind up with errors that look like this
(this is what I got today):
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script:
Exec format error
dpkg: error processing libungif3g-dev (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit
status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
libungif3g-dev
Sometimes I can get things to work by doing dpkg --purge, apt-get install,
but in this case several things depend on the library. Is there a
way around this, or should I file a bug report and wait for a repaired
package? Where do these installation / configuration scripts live --
perhaps I can fix it myself?
go edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/libungif3g-dev.postinst (or something
close) you will find either a missing or malformed #! /bin/sh add
that and the problem will go away. there seems to be a rash of weary
developers lately either forgetting or putting #/bin/sh and other
such things there. i've had about half a dozen packages do this over
the last 2 weeks.
Ethan
