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Old 05-12-2010, 07:07 AM   #1
tkmsr
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Debugging Debian package installation failure


I installed a packge redmine
apt-get install redmine
It went without any error.
But I found later that it was not working.
Another package I installed was red5
during installation it says it can not start red5-server.
How can I debug the package installations.
If there would have been some script I would have set some thing like
set -vmx in it.
As an example while installing red5 I got a message to issue the following
Code:
# dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc
info: Checking if it is safe to convert to dependency based boot.

error: Unable to migrate to dependency based boot sequencing.
error: Problems detected: package exim4-base removed but not purged, package red5-server removed but not purged

See http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot for
more information about dependency based boot sequencing. To
reattempt the migration process run 'dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc'.
Even then it failed.

Last edited by tkmsr; 05-12-2010 at 07:09 AM.
 
Old 05-13-2010, 12:36 PM   #2
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Problems detected: package exim4-base removed but not purged, package red5-server removed but not purged

Try aptitude purge ~c
 
  


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