Looking at the package contents I think this may be a bug in dpkg rather than inetutils-traceroute.
** Package changed: inetutils (Ubuntu) => dpkg (Ubuntu) ** Tags added: apport-collected ** Description changed: Not sure if this is caused by this package or is a bug in the dpkg package which provides update-alternatives. Following install of inetutils-traceroute I cannot use traceroute. # apt-get install inetutils-traceroute Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed inetutils-traceroute 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/37.3 kB of archives. After this operation, 183 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package inetutils-traceroute. (Reading database ... 258682 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking inetutils-traceroute (from .../inetutils-traceroute_2%3a1.8-6_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up inetutils-traceroute (2:1.8-6) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/inetutils-traceroute to provide /usr/bin/traceroute (traceroute) in auto mode. localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB # traceroute -bash: /usr/sbin/traceroute: No such file or directory # which traceroute /usr/bin/traceroute # ll /usr/bin/traceroute lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Nov 10 03:31 /usr/bin/traceroute -> /etc/alternatives/traceroute* This is a broken link. But: # update-alternatives --list traceroute /usr/bin/inetutils-traceroute I have previously installed the traceroute package but removed this as inetutils-traceroute is more reliable. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: inetutils-traceroute 2:1.8-6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-56.86-generic-pae 3.2.51 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-56-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Nov 10 03:33:01 2013 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: inetutils UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) + --- + ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6 + Architecture: i386 + DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 + InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3) + MarkForUpload: True + Package: dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu7.2 + PackageArchitecture: i386 + ProcEnviron: + LANGUAGE=en_GB:en + TERM=xterm + PATH=(custom, no user) + LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash + ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-56.86-generic-pae 3.2.51 + Tags: precise + Uname: Linux 3.2.0-56-generic-pae i686 + UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) + UserGroups: -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1249716 Title: update-alternatives doesn't appear to work with inetutils-traceroute To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1249716/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
