Hello,

I'm trying to install nmap but cannot get it to install. I'm hoping that someone can direct me to a fix for this. Appears to be a problem with a missing utility called dpkg-split. I've searched the beginner's archive but did not see this specific error. Here's the output from the install attempt...

Regards,

Jeff


Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following extra packages will be installed:
glib-shlibs gtk+-data gtk+-shlibs libpcap-shlibs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
glib-shlibs gtk+-data gtk+-shlibs libpcap-shlibs nmap
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 430kB/2295kB of archives. After unpacking 3376MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main nmap 3.00-3 [430kB]
Fetched 430kB in 1s (215kB/s)
dpkg (subprocess): failed to exec dpkg-split to see if it's part of a multiparter: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/libpcap-shlibs_0.6.2-6_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
dpkg (subprocess): failed to exec dpkg-split to see if it's part of a multiparter: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/glib-shlibs_1.2.10-18_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
dpkg (subprocess): failed to exec dpkg-split to see if it's part of a multiparter: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/gtk+-data_1.2.10-20_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
dpkg (subprocess): failed to exec dpkg-split to see if it's part of a multiparter: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/gtk+-shlibs_1.2.10-20_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
dpkg (subprocess): failed to exec dpkg-split to see if it's part of a multiparter: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/nmap_3.00-3_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/libpcap-shlibs_0.6.2-6_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/glib-shlibs_1.2.10-18_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/gtk+-data_1.2.10-20_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/gtk+-shlibs_1.2.10-20_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/nmap_3.00-3_darwin-powerpc.deb
E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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