Curtis Call was roused into action on 2003-01-24 15:57 and wrote:
No ideas but I have the exact same problem so you're not alone (and I've been using Debian for 2-3 years now). Myself, I was trying to install a Mozilla snapshot as it contains a new type of spam filter when I ran into this problem.Disclaimer, I'm a novice so bear with me. I've run into some problems with apt-get. Currently, when trying to use 'apt-get -f install' to clean things up I continue to get this error:ogd2jpr6908:/home/curtis# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 The following NEW packages will be installed: libc6 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/3191kB of archives. After unpacking 12.4MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? (Reading database ... 11 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libc6 (from .../libc6_2.3.1-10_i386.deb) ... dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support ! dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.1-10_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I noticed that dpkg is complaining that perhaps it isn't installed? Any ideas of how to go about fixing this?
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David P. James
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