Hello, I'm getting a strange error message from aptitude when I install anything or run safe-upgrade. It's caused by what it tells me is a the failing post- installation script for ssmtp.
Now I have ssmtp installed and working fine on two machines, but both throw this error out: > The following partially installed packages will be configured: > ssmtp > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Setting up ssmtp (2.61-12ubuntu1) ... > hostname: Unknown host > dpkg: error processing ssmtp (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > ssmtp > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > A package failed to install. Trying to recover: > Setting up ssmtp (2.61-12ubuntu1) ... > hostname: Unknown host > dpkg: error processing ssmtp (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > ssmtp So it looks like the configure script couldn't indentify my hostname, no real problem as I configured it by hand. But is there a way to tell dpkg to stop trying to configure it? I could just mess with the script in question, which I think is /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssmtp.postinst but I wanted to know if there is a "proper" Ubuntu/Debian way to do it. -Gav -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
