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irda-utils package

  1. Bug #340873
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 340873

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Franz Dietzmann (tdk-le) wrote : Re: [Jaunty] modprobe requires .conf filenames now

There is the command "patch", you'll find a short tutorial on it on http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/introduction-using-diff-and-patch-tutorial .

The file you need to apply the patch to is /var/lib/dpkg/info/irda-utils.postinst
Or at least with patching this one the installation worked for me.

I just found out about this after I edited the script by hand...