am-utils does not contain amd executable

[Shahar Tamir]

In Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10, am-utils for amd64 contains only wrapper scripts and no binary executables:

$ file /usr/sbin/amd
/usr/sbin/amd: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable

This file is a wrapper for running amd from the build environment. It tries to execute /usr/sbin/.libs/amd, which isn't there.

$ uname -a
Linux H97-HD3 4.15.0-43-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 6 14:45:28 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04

$ apt-cache policy am-utils
am-utils:
  Installed: 6.2+rc20110530-3.2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 6.2+rc20110530-3.2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 6.2+rc20110530-3.2ubuntu2 500
        500 http://storage.home.jungo.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

I was able to reproduce this issue with am-utils 6.2+rc20110530-3.2ubuntu2 on Ubuntu Disco, which prints the same error messages. I also found a corresponding bug report in Debian so I have attached a bug watch.

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