Nicolas, Thanks--I guess things are OK now, but I'm not sure--well, let me tell you what I found and what I think happened.
I went to uninstall doxygen (just in case there was some part of it hanging around that I should get rid of before trying to install again). I used apt- get from a konsole. When I did that, I got a message about backuppc--iirc, backuppc was the first package I tried to install (some weeks ago) that gave me that message about the post-install script failing. Apparently the messages I've been getting since then have all been related to backuppc. Weird! I uninstalled backuppc (which was not fully successfully installed anyway). I then went to reinstall doxygen, but it apparently had installed successfully in my earlier attempt, despite that message. I'm going to forgo the use of backuppc and use something else--in one case (for my places.sqlite file for Firefox), I'll use rsnapshot. So, I guess I'm good to go even if I don't quite understand what was going on--I mean, I have a general idea, but why did that post-install script for backuppc continue to try to run on each subsequent package (not backuppc) that I tried to install? It may be one of the mysteries of life that I'll never understand--I mean, I appear to be good to go, so I'm not going to worry about it! But, if anybody can explain, I am interested. regards, Randy Kramer On Sunday, October 16, 2016 03:27:07 PM Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 25 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : > > I've had several packages fail to install with a message saying that the > > post- install script failed (returned a 1, iirc). (I'm writing from my > > Wheezy machine.) > > > > Has anybody been having similar problems? Any hints as to why or how to > > overcome the problem? > > Re-run the update and look for the error messages from the scripts > themselves. > > Regards,
