Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.23.2 Yesterday, mailx refused to install because of this same problem. Today, it is svgalib-bin that complains. The following is the text of the session.
Unpacking svgalib-bin (from svgalib-bin_1.3.0-0.3.deb) ... You must upgrade dpkg before installing this package. dpkg: error processing svgalib-bin_1.3.0-0.3.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: svgalib-bin_1.3.0-0.3.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code Some errors occured while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again -- System Information Debian Release: 2.0 Kernel Version: Linux tower 2.0.33 #1 Thu Apr 16 22:56:56 EDT 1998 i486 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: hi libc6 2.0.7t-1 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) hi libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-0.6 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version) hi ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.10 Video terminal manipulation - shared librari
