[maemo-developers] scratchbox2 environment

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:41:16PM -0700, Joshua Layne wrote:
> I have gotten a sb2 environment set up on my debian etch machine by half
> upgrading it to lenny (testing) where necessary.
> 
> sb2 seems to mostly work, but I cannot actually install anything using
> apt-get.  When I run apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, I get the following:
> 
> /bin/sh: line 1: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory

This is harmless.

> dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege

This is not, but the fix is simple: you need to run apt-get under fakeroot.

Marius Gedminas
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