SID-00778: Can't Install Packages on TwikiVM Debian

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Category:	CategoryEmail	Server OS:	Debian 1:3.3.5-13, 2.4.27-2-386	Last update:	15 years ago

I'm running into issues trying to install packages on my TwikiVM.

When I try to install sendmail, I get the following:

wiki:~# apt-get install sendmail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: exim4-config: Conflicts: sendmail but 8.14.3-5+lenny1 is to be installed locales: Depends: glibc-2.7-1 sendmail: Depends: sendmail-base but it is not going to be installed

Depends

sendmail-bin but it is not going to be installed

Depends

sendmail-cf but it is not going to be installed

Depends

sensible-mda but it is not going to be installed

As it suggests, I try to run 'apt-get -f install' and get:

wiki:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 Suggested packages: glibc-doc libc6-i686 The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 220 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/4555kB of archives. After unpacking 4714kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 32181 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 (using .../libc6_2.7-18lenny2_i386.deb) ... Checking for services that may need to be restarted... Checking init scripts... readlink: invalid option -- e Try `readlink --help' for more information. readlink: invalid option -- e Try `readlink --help' for more information. readlink: invalid option -- e Try `readlink --help' for more information. readlink: invalid option -- e Try `readlink --help' for more information. readlink: invalid option -- e Try `readlink --help' for more information. readlink: invalid option -- e Try `readlink --help' for more information. readlink: invalid option -- e Try `readlink --help' for more information. readlink: invalid option -- e Try `readlink --help' for more information. WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version 2.6.8 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it before installing glibc.

The installation of a 2.6 kernel could ask you to install a new libc first, this is NOT a bug, and should NOT be reported. In that case, please add etch sources to your /etc/apt/sources.list and run: apt-get install -t etch linux-image-2.6 Then reboot into this new kernel, and proceed with your upgrade dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18lenny2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18lenny2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Is there any way to install packages, or upgrade the kernel in the VM? Thanks, Daryl

-- DarylMooi - 2010-03-09

Discussion and Answer

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-- PeterThoeny - 2010-05-02

I came across this too when I tried to install my VM Debian. Sendmail was already installed so there is no need to run that command as you already have everything you need to get the email setup. And I couldn't find a way to upgrade the kernel or install more packages myself, but like I said, you don't really need to.

-- TeresaStocker - 2010-08-27

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