[Users] A libetpan mystery.

[Paul]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:48:46 +0000
Malachi Constant <malachi42 at posteo.net> wrote: 

> Now there's a thought!  😊️ When in doubt read the error messages. Doh!
> So I did that, and the log said that gcc crashed because it could not
> read the spec file "/usr/share/dpkg/no-pie-link.specs.
> 
> I looked at /usr/share/dpkg and there were four files, none of which was
> no-pie-link.specs.

For this file you need to install the libdpkg-perl package.

There is obviously a missing dependency in the gcc package spec in ubuntu.

Install libdpkg-perl and this problem will be solved.

with regards

Paul