With a recent dist-upgrade the problem still exists as noted below. I have purged all the wicd* packages and tried afresh but still fails to preconfigure wicd-daemon:
~$ sudo apt-get install wicd [sudo] password for ruser: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libxcb-render-util0 libtorrent13 libwebkit-1.0-2 libdirectfb-extra libthunar-vfs-1-common libnl1 libffmpegthumbnailer4 libgnome-desktop-2-17 fonts-droid libwebkit-1.0-common libthunar-vfs-1-2 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: python-wicd wicd-daemon wicd-gtk The following NEW packages will be installed: python-wicd wicd wicd-daemon wicd-gtk 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 543 kB of archives. After this operation, 2,432 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main python-wicd all 1.7.0+ds1-7 [78.2 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main wicd-daemon all 1.7.0+ds1-7 [280 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main wicd-gtk all 1.7.0+ds1-7 [143 kB] Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main wicd all 1.7.0+ds1-7 [41.8 kB] Fetched 543 kB in 0s (599 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... wicd-daemon failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1 Selecting previously unselected package python-wicd. (Reading database ... 113161 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking python-wicd (from .../python-wicd_1.7.0+ds1-7_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package wicd-daemon. Unpacking wicd-daemon (from .../wicd-daemon_1.7.0+ds1-7_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package wicd-gtk. Unpacking wicd-gtk (from .../wicd-gtk_1.7.0+ds1-7_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package wicd. Unpacking wicd (from .../wicd_1.7.0+ds1-7_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for menu ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Setting up python-wicd (1.7.0+ds1-7) ... Setting up wicd-daemon (1.7.0+ds1-7) ... dpkg: error processing wicd-daemon (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wicd-gtk:configured to not write apport reports wicd-gtk depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.0+ds1-7); however: Package wicd-daemon is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing wicd-gtk (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wicd:configured to not write apport reports wicd depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.0+ds1-7); however: Package wicd-daemon is not configured yet. wicd depends on wicd-gtk (= 1.7.0+ds1-7) | wicd-curses (= 1.7.0+ds1-7) | wicd-cli (= 1.7.0+ds1-7) | wicd-client; however: Package wicd-gtk is not configured yet. Package wicd-curses is not installed. Package wicd-cli is not installed. Package wicd-client is not installed. Package wicd-gtk which provides wicd-client is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing wicd (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for python-support ...configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: wicd-daemon wicd-gtk wicd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Per a user suggestion on the AntiX forum I created a user called demo and then was able to get the daemon to install. As this was a live-cd user it gets removed after an install of distro AntiX and the previous install of wicd had had this user. Thought purging the packages removed all references to users but I guess its stored somewhere else. Is there a real need to remember users in these packages? Removed user profiles should be ignored IMHO in configuring this package thus this bug should be reopened and investigated further.
