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Problems installing Bugzilla

Hello!
I have problems installing bugzilla on Kubuntu 7.04. This is what I get:

Code:

$ sudo aptitude install bugzilla

Password:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Reading extended state information

Initializing package states... Done

Building tag database... Done

No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.

0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.

Writing extended state information... Done

Setting up bugzilla (2.22.1-2) ...

dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/bugzilla.conf

Not replacing deleted config file /etc/dbconfig-common/bugzilla.conf

unable to read input file /etc/dbconfig-common/bugzilla.conf

dpkg: error processing bugzilla (--configure):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

 bugzilla

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

Setting up bugzilla (2.22.1-2) ...

dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/bugzilla.conf

Not replacing deleted config file /etc/dbconfig-common/bugzilla.conf

unable to read input file /etc/dbconfig-common/bugzilla.conf

dpkg: error processing bugzilla (--configure):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

 bugzilla

What could I possibly have done wrong?

BR

I just searched for 'Not replacing deleted config file /etc/dbconfig-common/bugzilla.conf' and found this link, which seems to have a decent fix.

Apparently the chap in that thread fixed it by creating the conf file manually (/etc/dbconfig-common/bugzilla.conf in your case), and then doing an apt-get remove --purge bugzilla followed by apt-get install bugzilla again.

Can you try that on your distro (using aptitude instead of apt-get, sorry I'm not aware if aptitude supports arguments like --purge) and see if it helps?

Wohoo! Thanks alot man, Ive been pulling my hair for the last couple of days, tried to think of a hundred search phrases in google but found nothing. This worked perfectly :-)
You made my day!

Glad I could be of some use :)