On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:21:36PM +0200, Gerald Klinkl wrote: > ----------- > Clever:/home/gerald# apt-get install --reinstall xlibs > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 4 > not upgraded. > 117 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > Setting up xlibs (4.2.1-6) ... > ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults symbolic link does not exist. > Either > the package didn't ship the symbolic link (a bug in the package), or dpkg > failed to unpack it to the filesystem (a bug in dpkg). > Please report the package name, version, and the text of the above error > message(s) to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > dpkg: error processing xlibs (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk1.2: > libgtk1.2 depends on xlibs (>> 4.1.0); however: > Package xlibs is not configured yet.
There is probably something else on your system which has unpacked that directory. Try a "dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults". Later versions of the xlibs package have an improved error reporting procedure in this scenario. -- G. Branden Robinson | Fair use is irrelevant and Debian GNU/Linux | improper. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Asst. U.S. Attorney Scott http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Frewing, explaining the DMCA
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