I have maintained several fink installations in the past, but now I am 
running into a show-stopping problem with dpkg. Whenever I try to 
install something, either with fink, apt-get, or dselect, when it gets 
to the dpkg phase it dies with this error:

dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
dpkg: 2 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and 
/sbin.
E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

It sounds like a path problem. I have been using dselect through sudo 
(although the problem also occurs when I su to root), so I tried this:

[localhost:~] bencohen% sudo echo $PATH
Password:
/usr/bin:/bin:/Users/bencohen:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local:/usr/local/teTEX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin1.
3.7:/sw/bin:/sw/share/bin:/sw/man:/usr/local/share:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/
sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local:/sw/bin:/sw/
share/bin:/sw/man:/usr/local/share/

Everything seems in order there. So why does it say that root does not 
have the sbin dirs on it's path?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Sincerely,
Benjamin Cohen


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