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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org