need help with this error


Forum: Apt-get
Topic: need help with this error
started by: qkk

Posted by qkk on Jan. 04 2004,20:55
root@box:~/xchat-2.0.7# apt-get install make
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, make is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up make (3.79.1-14) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/make.postinst: line 1: /bin/pwd: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing make (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
make
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

umm .. what i have to do to get "make"

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 05 2004,01:16
Try the "Search" button above and search for keyword make

Make sure that you search from "the beginning"

I am pretty sure that there was a solution in there somewhere.

Good Luck.

Posted by Del on Jan. 05 2004,05:26
Yup, it's posted elsewhere.

However, since it's a good one...

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change it to use the
'testing' branch instead of the 'stable' branch. You'll see a bunch of lines that are
commented out (they start with a #) and one line that's not. In the one line that's
not commented, change the word 'stable' to 'testing' (no quotes). Save the file,
then run 'apt-get update' at the command line (again, no quotes). Then you should
be able to 'apt-get install make' without that error.

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