[Ilugc] dpkg returned an error code

  • From: raamanp@xxxxxxxxxxx (Raman.P)
  • Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 16:43:04 +0800 (SGT)


--- On Thu, 5/7/12, rmariya sagaya asirvatham <asir.linux at gmail.com> wrote:


I have to install ssmtp in ubuntu server 11.10 ,when I try
install ssmtp I
got the following error please help me to fix this issue



root at ubuntucache:/var/lib/dpkg/info# apt-get install ssmtp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
? ssmtp
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/42.9 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,192 B of additional disk space will
be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package ssmtp.
(Reading database ... 192113 files and directories currently
installed.)
Unpacking ssmtp (from .../archives/ssmtp_2.64-5_i386.deb)
...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up ssmtp (2.64-5) ...
hostname: Name or service not known

Above line tells it all. After installing dpkg tries to configure ssmtp. Here 
it fails, probably unable to get hostname


Raman.P
blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/





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