[Bug 406435] [NEW] installing issue

[Chunhao Wang]

Public bug reported:

I am using Ubuntu 9.04. When I tried to install wireshark from synaptic,
it continues returning:

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

but it was actually installed successfully.

After that, when I use apt-get or synaptic, it returns the same error
message every time.

When I run "sudo apt-get install -f" manually, it returns:

wing at wing:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for wing: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up menu (2.1.41ubuntu1) ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing menu (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 menu
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

It seems there are some problem with the package "menu"

After a hard google, I found the solution from here:
http://naveendageek.blogspot.com/2009/03/install-info-no-dir-file-specified-try.html

I did "mv /usr/local/bin/install-info /usr/local/bin/install-info-gnu"
and did "sudo apt-get install -f" again, the error message disappeared.
Then I reinstalled wireshark and everything is OK. After this, I changed
install-info-gnu back into install-info.

It seems wireshark's installing package recognizes the gnu version
install-info only.

** Affects: wireshark (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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