[schooltool-dev] alan's bzr problem

[Alan Elkner]

When I apt-get install bzr I get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
bzr is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up udev (113-0ubuntu16) ...
/etc/iftab does not exist to convert
 Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/finish ...
mknod: `/lib/udev/devices/ppp': Operation not permitted
dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgphoto2-2:
 libgphoto2-2 depends on udev; however:
  Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgphoto2-2 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsane:
 libsane depends on libgphoto2-2 (>= 2.4.0); however:
  Package libgphoto2-2 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libsane (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsane-dev:
 libsane-dev depends on libsane (= 1.0.19~cvs20070505-3ubuntu2); however:
  Package libsane is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libsane-dev (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up python-setuptools (0.6c6-1) ...
pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: already exists:
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools.pth
pycentral pkginstall: already exists:
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools.pth
dpkg: error processing python-setuptools (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 udev
 libgphoto2-2
 libsane
 libsane-dev
 python-setuptools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Something tells me the line:

/etc/iftab does not exist to convert

is the key to the problem, but I don't know what it means.

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just read aelkner and ignas's chat about switching to bzr.  I don't
>  think Alan mentioned that the specific problem he's having is the old
>  "can't install bzr on a (certain kind of) virtual server
>  implementation" problem, which I know has come up before, but I can't
>  remember what the fix is, if there is one, or the details of the
>  particular problem.  But it is something we've run into before, so we
>  hopefully we can just solve his problem and move on.
>
>  Can you provide more details, Alan?
>
>  --Tom
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