On Sunday 18 November 2007 16:28, Hugo Mills wrote:
> 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.
Oh, good. <sigh of relief>
> What does:
>
> $ ls -l /etc/mailcap*
> say?
[lisi@Tux:~]$ ls -l /etc/mailcap*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24420 2007-10-23 09:50 /etc/mailcap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-11-18 16:25 /etc/mailcap.new
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 449 2006-12-05 03:22 /etc/mailcap.order
[lisi@Tux:~]$
Thanks , Hugo. I really am very grateful.
Lisi
