I am manually installing a .deb file (which I don't maintain) onto my Ubuntu system.
The package has a post-installation script which erroneously fails, and therefore the package is considered broken.
dpkg: error processing astah-community (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
This package is actually installed correctly and is working fine (the post-installation script is incorrect). When I perform any apt operation on my system it now complains that the package is broken; how can I resolve this?
This doesn't help:
sudo dpkg -i /path/to/the.deb --force-all
Answer
You can edit the post install script at /var/lib/dpkg/info/astah-community.postinst to comment out a portion that is failing. Or you can just rename/remove that file to prevent dpkg from running it at all.
Once you've done one of those you can use dpkg --configure astah-community to have dpkg retry the configuration process, and hopefully have that succeed.
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