Joey Hess wrote: > Glen Snyder wrote: > > Hi again. Sorry to pester about this. apt-get does not work with testing > > (Woody) for me anymore. Nor does dpkg. The problem is with > > dpkg-preconfigure, I think. If I try an apt-get dist-upgrade, it exits > > with this message: > > > > /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory > > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code > > (127) > > E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt > > > > I can't really use a broken dpkg to do a reinstall on dpkg. Any > > suggestions? > > rm /etc/apt/apt.conf, and stop copying apt.conf files over from other > systems or from backups, or whatever it is you did. > > -- > see shy jo
Thanks for the suggestions. It turned out that the problem was with perl....I reinstalled the perl packages and everything works fine. dpkg-preconfigure is a perl script. -Glen
