On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 11:29:25PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:41:25AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > Debian Jessie, tried to upgrade today and received this message: > > > > Extracting templates from packages: 100% > > Preconfiguring packages ... > > Setting up libdb5.3:i386 (5.3.28-7~deb8u1) ... > > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-13) ... > > (Reading database ... 240422 files and directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to unpack .../libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb ... > > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute > > path > > dpkg: error processing archive > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb (--unpack): > > subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute > > path > > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > > subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > Preparing to unpack .../libgpg-error0_1.17-3_i386.deb ... > > Unpacking libgpg-error0:i386 (1.17-3) over (1.16-1) ... > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > What do I have to delete to get this to go away? > > rm /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb5.3-java_5.3.28-7~deb8u1_all.deb > > then > > apt-get -f install
Does that fix it? I wonder what's going on there then? Weird! -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150202102940.GA16080@tal
