dpkg-preconfigure
 

I am the only one to get this error message?

As it's part of debconf, I am not really keen on touching this.

The packages install fine but I hope this doesn't break things in long term..
Any ideas?
Is my install broken? I had to play a bit with this still_broken_repositories.
I can't remember I had this under bora. Should have kept an archive..

Re: dpkg-preconfigure
 

FWIW, there's no /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure in the bora SDK either, not in fakedebconf and not in its real debconf. The sharutils package there doesn't depend on dpkg-preconfigure in its install scripts either as far as I can tell.

Re: dpkg-preconfigure
 

Thanks
Thanks for this. I have no way to check
It latest debconf it is.
Yes it doesn't depend but I guess some conf variables are handled by debconf, that's why it's calling it.

What I'm interested is to know if I'm the only one who get this message, if it comes from my installation

I get this every time in fact.. argggg

Re: dpkg-preconfigure
 

It's in the standard (desktop) version of debconf, but not in the Bora version.. it's included in version 1.4.30, for example (my Bora version is 1.4.70. Apparently it's a stripped-down version).

Unfortunately I can't help you with the Chinook setup.. I haven't migrated yet. But there must be lots of people on this forum who could chime in? Hello?

Re: dpkg-preconfigure
 

So nobody here is running chinook or my question is too hard to understand?

:confused:

Re: dpkg-preconfigure
 

Did you find a fix for this error? I'm working my way through setting up scratchbox on Gentoo, and the final step, "apt-get -f upgrade", dies with the same message.

Re: dpkg-preconfigure
 

http://www.gnuton.org/blog/2008/05/c...-installation/

@sjgadsby

Under Gentoo, you probably will have to compile dpkg and then just copy the dpkg binaries as needed.

Re: dpkg-preconfigure
 

I commented one line in
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf

Re: dpkg-preconfigure
 

Since this one of the top google results, let me clarify:

t's not a error, it is a warning.

dpkg-preconfigure is a tool to ask debconf questions before packages are installed. If it missing, questions will be asked during install.

If you are having package install problems and you see this message, it is not caused by this message, but rather be some of the other messages given to you (Usually it means you have messed /etc/apt/sources.list).

Re: dpkg-preconfigure
 

I have same error when try
on initial Maemo SDK installation.

And what effect this take?

Re: dpkg-preconfigure
 

read the previous post

Re: dpkg-preconfigure
 

Are trying to apt-get without using fakeroot? I think you should be using fakeroot for all apt-get commands: