On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:19:54AM -0500, Derek Doucette wrote:
> second problem solved, but this first one is still there. There is
> no dhcp in /etc/init.d. instead the tarball put in dhcpd which is
> what the link in my rc2.d directory is pointing to. Where should I
> go from here?
I'm confused by your mention of a tarball. Debian packages come in
.deb files.
One of the files in a Debian package is a pre-removal script. Since an
old pre-removal script is mentioned, it seems that you've already got
a debian dhcp package installed, but that it's broken since
/etc/init.d/dhcp is missing:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/dhcp.prerm: /etc/init.d/dhcp: No such file or directory
> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /etc/init.d/dhcp: No such file or directory
First, ensure the tarballed dhcp is stopped with:
/etc/init.d/dhcpd stop
(That's what the pre-removal script is trying to do by running /etc/init.d/dhcp.)
Next, you want to force dpkg to ignore the error from the pre-removal
script about the missing file. I'm not sure how to do this, but
dpkg --force-help shows:
bad-path PATH is missing important programs, problems likely
so try:
dpkg --force-bad-path -i /var/cache/apt/archives/dhcp_2.0pl4-2_i386.deb
--
Tod Hagan
Campton, NH
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