I've exactly the same error msg (on a fresh ubuntu 8.04 LTS install) It was the hostname of that machine which couldn't be resolved. So I added the hostname to /etc/hosts (with it's external IP address) and after that, the installation of collectd worked fine
-- E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297288 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
