I've heard that's it's improper to reply to your own message, but I need to acknowledge that I've solved this problem, before anyone wastes any time on it.
A quick search of the mailing list archive turned up this very same question in July along with the answer: remove the debsig-verify package. As to the question "Isn't this in the FAQ, yet?" -- Who knows? Who reads FAQ's? ;-) Mike On Saturday 27 November 2004 01:38 pm, Mike Reinehr wrote: > I've been trying to complete a new installation from the Sarge repository > today, using the current Debian Installer (monolithic/mini.iso). Mostly > the install goes smoothly, until near the end when it attempts to do a > final installation of a hundred or so packages. At this point I can not > complete the installation of these packages as they all seem to fail with > the above error. Could this be something that I have done wrong during the > installation, or could this be a problem with the Deb packages themselves? > I'm using the debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org mirror, the '/sarge' > directory, and the 'testing' distribution. > > Thanks! > > Mike > -- > Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 > ---- > "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC > -------- -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 ---- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --------
