Re: [Hampshire] Is a faulty download to blame for my problem…

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Author: Hugo Mills
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Is a faulty download to blame for my problems?

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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x57c95100.hantslug.org.uk.8717': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Sun Nov 18 16:28:53 2007 GMT
gpg: using DSA key 20ACB3BE515C238D
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:27:42PM +0000, hantslug@??? wrote:
> On Sunday 18 November 2007 16:08, Hugo Mills wrote:
> >  What do you get if you do:
> >
> > $ sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-debian-files_0.0.11_all.deb
>
> Tux:/home/lisi#
> dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-debian-files_0.0.11_all.deb
> (Reading database ... 137517 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace acroread-debian-files 0.0.11
> (using .../acroread-debian-files_0.0.11_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement acroread-debian-files ...
> Error: contents of '/etc/mailcap.new' do not match what was written -- abort
> dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 255
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> Error: contents of '/etc/mailcap.new' do not match what was written -- abort
> dpkg: error
> processing /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-debian-files_0.0.11_all.deb
> (--install):
> subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 255
> Error: contents of '/etc/mailcap.new' do not match what was written -- abort
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 255
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-debian-files_0.0.11_all.deb
> Tux:/home/lisi#


This starts to look more tractable by the minute.

What does:

$ ls -l /etc/mailcap*

say?

Hugo.

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