[Bug 4211] Re: cant install artwiz-cursor package in breezy..showing a "subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2"

[hackel]

Confirmed this exact problem on Dapper, artwiz-cursor 1:1.3-2.

xcursor-themes and crystalcursors (installed with the same command) installed correctly without any problem.

/etc/X11/cursors/core.theme is located in package xcursor-themes.

The preinst tries:

update-alternatives --set x-cursor-theme /etc/X11/cursors/core.theme

This is completely unnecessary, as far as I can tell.

This alternative -used- to be set in xlibs-data in hoary, but those of us who installed breezy directly without upgrading don't have it.  This package does this in postinst:

# register available X cursor themes with update-alternatives
update-alternatives --install /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/index.theme x-cursor-theme /etc/X11/cursors/core.theme 30

The cursor files used to be in xlibs-data but now they're in xcursor-themes, and the location has been moved from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons to /usr/share/icons like everything else.  Additionally, it installs /etc/X11/cursors/core.theme so the alternative is not necessary.

Please remove the update-alternatives line from artwiz preinst and all should be well.

Also, you need to add bdftopcf to build-depends. 

Have you confirmed that after you install artwiz-cursor that it actually -works-?  I haven't restarted X yet, but it doesn't show up in gnome-mouse-properties, and I think this package is not really compatible with libxcursor1.  It uses an older method to replace the cursor.  I don't know if it works with xorg 7.0.
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cant install artwiz-cursor package in breezy..showing a "subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2"
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/4211