[Techtalk] apt-get hell?

[Laurel Fan]

On Apr 1, 2005 2:06 PM, Katie Bechtold <katie at katie-and-rob.org> wrote:
> # apt-get --ignore-missing install file-rc
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   file-rc
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/36.3kB of archives.
> After unpacking 193kB of additional disk space will be
> used.
> dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
> NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin,
> /usr/sbin and /sbin.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

I would try:

1. Find the package containing update-rc.d (either find the one that
   apt downloaded, or get one from http://packages.debian.org)
2. Unpack it (.debs are ar archives, see the manpage for the ar
   command to get the command to unpack it)
3. Find the update-rc.d file, and manually copy it to /usr/sbin/
4. Try to install the package with apt or dpkg.

If it still complains about missing files (hopefully not), repeat...

-- 
Laurel Fan
http://dreadnought.gorgorg.org