Package Will Not Configure

[Avalith]

This is starting to get annoying. I'm trying to reconfigure my wireless card after having to completely reinstalling my system the other day and now the package gettext won't configure so I can't continue with what I need because ndiswrapper depends on gettext.

Here's what I get when trying to configure or reinstall:

Setting up gettext (0.16.1-2) ...
install-info(/usr/share/info/gettext.info): 
dpkg: error processing gettext (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gettext
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

And here's the removal message:

Removing gettext ...
install-info(/usr/share/info/gettext.info): no file /usr/share/info/dir, retrieving backup file /var/backups/infodir.bak.
cp: accessing `/usr/share/info/dir': Not a directory
install-info(/usr/share/info/gettext.info): copying /var/backups/infodir.bak to /usr/share/info/dir failed, giving up: Not a directory
dpkg: error processing gettext (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
install-info(/usr/share/info/gettext.info): 
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gettext
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

What do I need to do to either configure gettext or remove it?

[Vergil83]

What happens when you run

apt-get -f install

[Avalith]

Check the first code output.

[Vergil83]

How about

dpkg --configure -a

[Avalith]

No output.

[Vergil83]

Try

dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq gettext

[Avalith]

avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq gettext
Password:
(Reading database ... 96157 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gettext ...
install-info(/usr/share/info/gettext.info): no file /usr/share/info/dir, retrieving backup file /var/backups/infodir.bak.
cp: accessing `/usr/share/info/dir': Not a directory
install-info(/usr/share/info/gettext.info): copying /var/backups/infodir.bak to /usr/share/info/dir failed, giving up: Not a directory
dpkg: error processing gettext (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
install-info(/usr/share/info/gettext.info): 
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gettext

That doesn't seem to work either.

[Vergil83]

I still don't understand why it is failing. Try making the directory

mkdir /usr/share/info/dir

The try to remove it again.

[Avalith]

avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/info
Password:
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/share/info': File exists
avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/info/dir
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/share/info/dir': Not a directory

[Vergil83]

Ok, I finally got the brilliant idea. /usr/share/info/dir is just a next file, not a folder, so no wonder it is failing. I really starting to think this is a bug because I should have the same issue (assuming I was installing gettext new). I would file a bug with debian on gettext.