On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:05:24AM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Hi, > > There was an error when dpkg tried to install the package, but has > nothing to do with aptitude itself per se. Try doing a dpkg -C and/or > dpkg -l libncurses5 you'll probably see that libncurses5 is not fully > installed. See if you can figure out how to fix it. dpkg --configure -a > may or may not help. Anyway, it's highly unlikely that it's aptitude's > fault the the package installation failed and is most likely an > installation script problem, like the > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libncurses5.postinst script for instance.
That was my first thought, but libncurses5 was not among the packages that I attempted to install.
pgp8oTYmxhmRt.pgp
Description: PGP signature
