Hi, Kirk! Thank you very much for your advice. It did the trick! Sergei. >>>>> "KR" == Kirk Reiser <kirk at braille.uwo.ca> writes: KR> I'm never quite sure with this particular error why it crops up KR> but I've seen it a lot on debian and to a lesser extent ubuntu. KR> The down and dirty approach in this case is to rm the KR> package.postinst script. There are a few scripts which get run KR> prior to and after installing a new package to make sure the KR> permissions are correct, the directories are empty or removed or KR> who knows what else.. The dpkg system is suppose to notice when KR> one of the scripts is modified or changed for some new improved KR> reason but occasionally it fumbles and doesn't notice. If you KR> remove the offending file by hand then the package installation KR> system is forced to replace the file with the one in the .deb KR> file. So for the sake of information because you've probably KR> already done something more drastic try these two commands: KR> rm /var/lib/info/libc6.postinst apt-get -f install KR> Now with the libc6 package it is a more dangerous process because KR> if something goes wrong you absolutely cannot operate without KR> libc6 but this is a script which is being run after the basic KR> installation is complete so if it were to destroy your system it KR> would probably have already trashed it. KR> In anyevent good luck. Kirk KR> -- KR> Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: KR> kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) KR> 661-3061 KR> _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing KR> list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca KR> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
