On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:41:15AM -0800, peter.clark at tides.com wrote:
>    I am running Woody. I also just downloaded (through the Debian package 
> page) ppp_2.4.1-4_i386.deb, and tried dpkg -i. Same problem. So, I changed 
> the command in /etc/modutils/0keep to something harmless (ls) and tried 
> again. This was the result:
> ---
> (Reading database ... 65884 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace ppp 2.4.1-1 (using ppp_2.4.1-4_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement ppp ...
> /etc/modutils/actions: post-install: command not found
> /etc/modutils/actions: post-remove: command not found
> dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> /etc/modutils/actions: post-install: command not found
> /etc/modutils/actions: post-remove: command not found
> dpkg: error processing ppp_2.4.1-4_i386.deb (--install):
>  subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> /etc/modutils/actions: post-install: command not found
> /etc/modutils/actions: post-remove: command not found
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  ppp_2.4.1-4_i386.deb

Wonder what command it's trying to execute? Could you possibly try
to extract the post-install script and execute it and see what happens?

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