oxygen-cursor-theme doesn't install

[Che Guevara]

Haven't investigated the cause yet, missing depends?

Setting up oxygen-cursor-theme (0.0.2008-01-27-a7b68163e7c8ccc1376-2ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing oxygen-cursor-theme (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 oxygen-cursor-theme
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Che Guevara (che-guevara-3)]

Assigning to apachelogger to attract his attention :P

[Che Guevara (che-guevara-3)]

Yeah, there's a missing depends on xcursor-themes, that provides the /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme file

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package oxygencursors - 0.0.2008-01-27-a7b68163e7c8ccc1376-2ubuntu2

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oxygencursors (0.0.2008-01-27-a7b68163e7c8ccc1376-2ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * Add missing depends on xcursor-themes to oxygen-cursor-theme-extra
    (LP: #202444).

  [ Jonathan Patrick Davies ]
  * Add missing depends on xcursor-themes to oxygen-cursor-theme.

 -- Ilya Eremin <email address hidden> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:25:21 +0000

[François (francois-letendre)]

I just had this exact same bug on a customized Ubuntu 9.04 when installing "oxygen-cursor-theme (0.0.2008-07-07-svn824849-1ubuntu1)"

Error from "sudo aptitude install oxygen-cursor-theme":

update-alternatives: impossible de faire de /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme.dpkg-tmp un lien symbolique vers /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme : Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type

There was no dependency on xcursor-themes

Installing xcursor-themes resolved the problem.

[François (francois-letendre)]

I'd like to re-open this bug as I encountered the exact same problem in Ubuntu 9.04.
Apparently, dependency over xcursor-themes disappeared or never made it's way.

[Crunchy the Headcrab (m-greb)]

Encountered in Ubuntu 9.04

update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing oxygen-cursor-theme (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 oxygen-cursor-theme
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Installing xcursor-themes allowed installation.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package oxygencursors - 0.0.2008-07-07-svn824849-1ubuntu2

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oxygencursors (0.0.2008-07-07-svn824849-1ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * Re-add debian/dirs once more (LP: #202444)

 -- Harald Sitter <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:04:22 +0200