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fail at XVI. Install additional packages.

Rather annoyingly it would seem that
debootstrap --arch i386 etch /mnt/buildroot
couldnt configure (amongst others) aptitude or apt-utils.

Being a none too bright chap I didnt actually notice until stage XVI where i get the message
-su: apt-get: command not found

so my question is whether my problem lies in having chosen etch rather than sid? or is debootstrap unhappy being invoked on a ubuntu (gutsy) box?

looking at the debootstrap.log it would seem that a host of dependencies are not installing:
libpopt0
libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11
libncursesw5

resulting in failure to configure and install:
whiptail
logrotate
aptitude
nano
apt-utils
tasksel
tasksel-data

Are the correct files only available with a sid debootstrap? or have I merely been handed a bad set of files and I should try again in a few days?

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