On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:17:53PM -0700, D. wrote: > I did a dist upgrade to Woody and keep receiving the error not > preconfiguring the package, apt-utils is not installed. > My question is when you do a upgrade like this why isn't apt-utils > installed with the upgrade if it is required for configuring the > packages?
You don't actually need apt-utils, which is why it isn't installed. It's required for *pre*configuring packages, that is configuring them before an installation run starts so that you can (sometimes) let the whole install proceed without interruption. However, if preconfiguration isn't available, debconf will fall back to configuring packages one by one as they're installed. If not being able to preconfigure a package actually causes a real problem (a halted or a broken installation) as opposed to a warning message, then that is a bug either in debconf or in the particular package concerned. You don't say if this warning stops you installing packages, though. Also, debconf recommends apt-utils. apt-get doesn't follow recommends (a design decision), but if you had upgraded with dselect then apt-utils would have been selected for installation. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
