Hello, when running dselect or apt i invariantly get hte same problem, the whole system come to halt with the following error: Need to get 0B/576kB of archives. After unpacking 1644kB will be used. Sequence (?-...) not recognized at /usr/bin/dpkg-preconfig line 99. E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (255) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt
the offending line is if (/^ (?i)(?:Pre-)?Depends(?i-):\s+.*?debconf\s+\(\s*([><=]*)\s+(.*?)\s*\)/) i am not a perl-expert, but some things seem strange to me about this line: .*? this sequence seems very strange to me.... further all this '?' standing around alone..... so what else is wrong on this line? I prepended all '?' with '.' without touching the very courious .*? and at least apt seems to install and configure the stuff, so even i have not really an idea on what i am doing, it can't be so wrong.... but .... did i do the right thing? -- ciao bboett ============================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett http://erm1.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett =============================================================== the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant. human population is growing....
