eric k. wolven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A problem I am having is in installation of packages. I still have a >number of "broken pkgs" and unconfigured. > >I am getting "/usr/sbin/install-info: no such file or directory" messages. > >I've tried to re-install dpkg_1.7.1 which has the file and it seems to >install, but I can't get it to write the directory >"/usr/sbin/install-info". It's there but no script.
/usr/sbin/install-info has /usr/bin/perl as its interpreter, and you must have upgraded to dpkg 1.7.0 when it had the update-alternatives bug that zapped that. 'ln -s /etc/alternatives/perl /usr/bin/perl' will fix that. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]