Hi,
Im running Debian and have developed a problem with apt. It seems that my dpkg-preconfigure script has somehow become corrupted. I have recently run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and think the problem began at that point. I looked into reinstalling dpkg but I got a warning that required that I type "Yes,I really want to do this". Sounds bad to me. So heres the dump, any help and input is appreciated.
Ben
btartsa@burnside:~$ sudo apt-get install gimp-data-extras
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gimp-data-extras
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 4698kB of archives.
After unpacking 8675kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1
http://debian.uchicago.edu unstable/main gimp-data-extras 1:2.0.1-3 [4698kB ]
Fetched 4698kB in 10s (434kB/s)
String found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, near "die sprintf(gettext(""
(Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 94)
(Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, ne ar "die sprintf(gettext("debconf"
(Do you need to predeclare die?)
Unquoted string "debconf" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/sbin/dpkg-p reconfigure line 96.
String found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 103, nea r "gettext(""
(Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 96)
(Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 104, n ear "$package, $confmodule"
(Might be a runaway multi-line ff string starting on line 103)
(Missing operator before dule?)
Unquoted string "dule" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/sbin/dpkg-prec onfigure line 104.
syntax error at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, near "die sprintf(gettext(""
Unmatched right curly bracket at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 108, at end of line
syntax error at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 108, near "}"
Execution of /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure aborted due to compilation errors.
Selecting previously deselected package gimp-data-extras.
(Reading database ... 41109 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gimp-data-extras (from .../gimp-data-extras_1%3a2.0.1-3_all.deb) ...
Setting up gimp-data-extras (2.0.1-3) ...
btartsa@burnside:~$
