Your message dated Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:40:10 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#535827: xterm: alternatives messed up
has caused the Debian Bug report #535827,
regarding xterm: alternatives messed up
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Package: xterm
Version: 243-1
Severity: normal
# apt-get install xterm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xterm
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/487kB of archives.
After this operation, 1417kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package xterm.
(Reading database ... 128921 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xterm (from .../archives/xterm_243-1_i386.deb) ...
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for x-terminal-emulator.
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for x-terminal-emulator.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up xterm (243-1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative x-terminal-emulator.1.gz can't be slave
of x-terminal-emulator: it is a master alternative.
dpkg: error processing xterm (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
this might be related to bug #400478.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library
ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090530-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.1-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.5-2 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxft2 2.1.13-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xbitmaps 1.0.1-2 Base X bitmaps
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.4+1 X11 utilities
ii xutils 1:7.4+3 X Window System utility programs m
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn xfonts-cyrillic <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 13:50:45 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> # apt-get install xterm
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> xterm
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/487kB of archives.
> After this operation, 1417kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Selecting previously deselected package xterm.
> (Reading database ... 128921 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xterm (from .../archives/xterm_243-1_i386.deb) ...
> update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for x-terminal-emulator.
> update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for x-terminal-emulator.
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Processing triggers for menu ...
> Setting up xterm (243-1) ...
> update-alternatives: error: alternative x-terminal-emulator.1.gz can't be
> slave of x-terminal-emulator: it is a master alternative.
> dpkg: error processing xterm (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
>
Fixed in new dpkg.
Cheers,
Julien
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