Hi, I am trying to get Xfree86 installed on an Itanium HP i2000. When I issue apt-get install xserver-xfree86 I get the following error:
rau:~# apt-get install xserver-xfree86 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: discover read-edid mdetect The following NEW packages will be installed: xserver-xfree86 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/6830kB of archives. After unpacking 24.9MB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... xserver-xfree86 failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10 (Reading database ... 31878 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking xserver-xfree86 (from .../xserver-xfree86_4.2.1-12.1_ia64.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xfree86_4.2.1-12.1_ia64.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xfree86_4.2.1-12.1_ia64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Anyone know how to fix that? Cheers, -- Adam Parrish Asst. Linux Administrator ECE Dept, North Carolina State University Office: 919.515.0124
