Colin Cotter wrote: > (Fink user running on MacBook) > > Dear list, > I have a problem with "apt-get upgrade". It appears to be caused > by some post install scripts failing to run. The output I get is > > localhost:~/Documents/svn_repo/papers/VPM colincotter$ sudo apt-get > upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 2 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > Setting up ipython-py23 (0.6.15-1) ... > /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/ipython-py23.postinst: line 6: update- > alternatives: command not found > /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing ipython-py23 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 > Setting up libgnomeui2 (2.6.1.1-1011) ... > /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnomeui2.postinst: line 6: update- > alternatives: command not found > /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing libgnomeui2 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 > Errors were encountered while processing: > ipython-py23 > libgnomeui2 > E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Has anybody seen this before or can work out what is going on? > > all the best > --Colin > > The update-alternatives command isn't in your PATH for some reason. It's installed as part of dpkg, so it should be around. I'd guess your PATH is missing /sw/sbin , but you can confirm this by running
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