Binary package hint: prelude-manager
Trying to install prelude-manager on Edgy fails, as below. Creating the user and re-installing fixes it.
~$ sudo apt-get install prelude-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
prelude-manager
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/135kB of archives.
After unpacking 475kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package prelude-manager.
(Reading database ... 98061 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking prelude-manager (from .../prelude-manager_0.9.4.1-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up prelude-manager (0.9.4.1-1) ...
Starting Prelude Manager: prelude-managerprelude-client: error initializing prelude-client: could not open '/etc/prelude/profile/prelude-manager/analyzerid' for reading
Profile 'prelude-manager' does not exist. In order to create it, please run:
prelude-adduser add prelude-manager --uid 0 --gid 0.
invoke-rc.d: initscript prelude-manager, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing prelude-manager (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 248
Errors were encountered while processing:
prelude-manager
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Confirmed, and still happens on Feisty.