Ok, not working for me. What if there are no 0-bits files in that
directory?
2009/7/20 Peter Hoogkamer <peter.hoogka...@gmail.com>:
> Hello neu,
>
> I will checked this workaround this evening.
>
> 2009/7/19 neu <ubuntu-b...@henrik.synth.no>:
>> Okay, here's a workaround that worked for me:
>>
>> The kill_bad_alternatives() function in the preinst script expects that
>> all the files it reads are non-empty. On my system
>> /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/gnome-text-editor was empty, which made
>> kill_bad_alternatives() exit when it tried to read the first line ("read
>> mode").
>>
>> Solution: Delete /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/gnome-text-editor (and any
>> other 0-byte files in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/) and try installing
>> dpkg again.
>>
>> --
>> dpkg 1.15.3.1ubuntu1 fails to install/upgrade
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397498
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