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The new .deb (as of yesterday) fails to install on my N800 (running Diablo, MMC-Boot). It worked great eariler yesterday (I installed it, then used debbie sudo aptitude install to install a few new applications), and then the Application Manager reported an update. I tried to install the update to easy-deb-chroot (0.9.17) , it proceeded mostly as you'd expect (specified install directories, etc.) But in the end Application Manager reported "Could not install."

I tried installing it using sudo apt-get, to get a more informative error message. I'll paste what it says here -- looks to me like trouble with the post-install scripts, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Any ideas?

Here's the output when I tried apt-get (with -f, same result):
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/home/user # apt-get install easy-deb-chroot
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
easy-deb-chroot is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
bzip2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up easy-deb-chroot (0.9.17) ...
Cache file created successfully.
/var/lib/dpkg/info/easy-deb-chroot.postinst: line 133: syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "fi")
dpkg: error processing easy-deb-chroot (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
easy-deb-chroot
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
/home/user #
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The result, at present, is a partial install in which I can't open applications from the Hildon / Maemo menus. But I can run LXDE from those menus, and run Debian applications from there.

I've also tried removing easy-deb-chroot and easy-chroot, rebooting, and reinstalling the above, with the same error.

Any ideas on how I'd fix this?

Best,
Jon