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doc-base package

  1. Bug #349725
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 349725

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : Re: 8.04->9.04-beta updgrade: Could not install 'base-passwd'

Here is the error:

Preparing to replace base-passwd 3.5.16 (using .../base-passwd_3.5.21_i386.deb)
...
Can't locate Pod/Usage.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/
5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/
5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/sbin/install-docs li
ne 18.
Global symbol "$opt_rootdir" requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/install
-docs line 136.
Execution of /usr/sbin/install-docs aborted due to compilation errors.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 9
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK.
Unpacking replacement base-passwd ...
Setting up base-passwd (3.5.21) ...
Can't locate Pod/Usage.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/
5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/
5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/sbin/install-docs li
ne 18.
Global symbol "$opt_rootdir" requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/install
-docs line 136.
Execution of /usr/sbin/install-docs aborted due to compilation errors.
dpkg: error processing base-passwd (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 base-passwd