For various reasons I am installing .deb dependencies for grub2 using dpkg directly (rather than apt-get).
root@ubuntu:/dl# dpkg -i grub-gfxpayload-lists_0.6_amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package grub-gfxpayload-lists. (Reading database ... 249808 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack grub-gfxpayload-lists_0.6_amd64.deb ... Unpacking grub-gfxpayload-lists (0.6) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-gfxpayload-lists: grub-gfxpayload-lists depends on grub-pc (>= 1.99~20101210-1ubuntu2); however: Package grub-pc is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package grub-gfxpayload-lists (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: grub-gfxpayload-lists By configure I assume it means install+configure, so I tried: root@ubuntu:/dl# dpkg -i grub-pc_2.02~beta2-9_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 249818 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack grub-pc_2.02~beta2-9_amd64.deb ... Unpacking grub-pc (2.02~beta2-9) over (2.02~beta2-9) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-pc: grub-pc depends on grub2-common (= 2.02~beta2-9); however: Package grub2-common is not installed. grub-pc depends on grub-pc-bin (= 2.02~beta2-9); however: Package grub-pc-bin is not installed. grub-pc depends on grub-gfxpayload-lists; however: Package grub-gfxpayload-lists is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package grub-pc (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: grub-pc How do I solve this problem? Thanks for all suggestions, Alec Taylor _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
