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I am the only one to get this error message?

[sbox-CHINOOK_ARMEL: ~/src/qt4-x11-4.3.2] > apt-get install sharutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
sharutils
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 111kB of archives.
After unpacking 393kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
sharutils
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://reposotory.maemo.org chinook/free sharutils 1:4.2.1-13 [111kB]
Fetched 111kB in 1s (65.1kB/s)
/scratchbox/tools/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory
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..
 
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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.
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Thanks
FWIW, there's no /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure in the bora SDK either,
Thanks for this. I have no way to check
not in fakedebconf and not in its real debconf.
It latest debconf it is.
The sharutils package there doesn't depend on dpkg-preconfigure in its install scripts either as far as I can tell.
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

Last edited by free; 2007-12-31 at 19:07.
 
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Originally Posted by free View Post
It latest debconf it is.
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?
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So nobody here is running chinook or my question is too hard to understand?

 
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Originally Posted by free View Post
I am the only one to get this error message?
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.
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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.
 
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I commented one line in
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
 
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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).
 

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I have same error when try
Code:
apt-get install nokia-binaries
on initial Maemo SDK installation.

Originally Posted by free View Post
I commented one line in
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
And what effect this take?
 
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