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I'm finishing up an installation of etch
and keep geting dpkg errors here's my current error

Quote:

Atlaintis:~# dpkg --configure gzip
Setting up gzip (1.3.9-1) ...
install-info(/usr/share/info/gzip.info): warning, ignoring confusing INFO-DIR-ENTRY in file.

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/gzip.info): unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up
dpkg: error processing gzip (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
gzip
Atlaintis:~#

wow, that's impressively erm.. rude don't you think? maybe a please or a thankyou as opposed to just demanding help with "NOW" ??

I'm not in to good of a mood b/c dpkg keeps giving me errors and breaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_General

I'm not in to good of a mood b/c dpkg keeps giving me errors and breaking

if you need to get rid of frustration, go out for a run!
bad mood is no reason for bad behavior.

start of with reading the manual 'how not to as a question'

If it was me, I'd just use apt to get gzip, or better yet file-roller ... and as bad tempered and frustrated as I get when people ask what I consider to be dumb questions, I certainly wouldn't let it show when it's MY question

gzip (1.3.9-1) is buggy either put it on hold or use the version in Sid:1.3.9-2

See the BTS:
#404036 - gzip does not install - Debian Bug report logs
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404036

Thank the man for his help NOW

Quote:

Originally Posted by introuble

Thank the man for his help NOW

that's a good one :-)

There's a patch so apply it:

check you have this line in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

maybe change unstable to testing, depending on your flavour

cd /tmp
<as root>
apt-get build-dep gzip
apt-get source gzip
chown -R user:user gzip-1.3.9 replace by your username
cp -R gzip-1.3.9 gzip-1.3.9.old
</as root>
echo > patch.gzip << EOF
--- gzip-1.3.9.old/doc/gzip.texi 2006-12-08 19:45:37.000000000 +0100
+++ gzip-1.3.9/doc/gzip.texi 2006-12-21 15:04:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -28,14 +28,14 @@

@c Debian install-info (up through at least version 1.9.20) uses only the
@c first dircategory. Put this one first, as it is more useful in practice.
-@dircategory Individual utilities
+@dircategory Utilities
@direntry
-* gzip: (gzip)Invoking gzip. Compress files.
+* Gzip: (gzip). The gzip command for compressing files.
@end direntry

-@dircategory Utilities
+@dircategory Individual utilities
@direntry
-* Gzip: (gzip). The gzip command for compressing files.
+* gzip: (gzip)Invoking gzip. Compress files.
@end direntry

@titlepage
EOF

then
patch -p0 patch.gzip
cd gzip-1.3.9
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage
cd ..
as root:
dpkg -i gzip_1.3.9-1_i386.deb

Hope I haven't made too many typo errors :-)

This will get a 1.3.9-1 patched but 1.3.9-2 should arrive in testing soon.