Can't install on Ubuntu 17.10 from PPA

[francogp]

Using ppa, the config files cancel the installation process because of errors in it.
Configurando apt-fast (1.8.3~144+git3a6bd77-0ubuntu1~ppa4) ... Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE _MAXNUM}/ at /var/lib/dpkg/info/apt-fast.config line 212.

[fcastilloec]

+1

[fuelflo]

+1

[rlineros]

I also have the same problem when installing apt-fast via PPA in Ubuntu 17.10. Here it is the output:

Setting up apt-fast (1.8.3~144+git3a6bd77-0ubuntu1~ppa4) ...
Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE _MAXNUM}/ at /var/lib/dpkg/info/apt-fast.config line 212.
dpkg: error processing package apt-fast (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
 apt-fast
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[necromuralist]

It'd be nice if this got fixed, but in case anyone is blocked by this - you can open the /var/lib/dpkg/info/apt-fast.config file (as root) and add a backslash to line 212. i.e. change this:

if ($downloadcmd =~ /\${_MAXNUM}/){

To this:

if ($downloadcmd =~ /\$\{_MAXNUM}/){

(add a backslash between the $ and the {). Then the install should work.

[rlineros]

Perfect.
I confirm that by editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/apt-fast.config with the indications of @necromuralist the installation problem gets fixed.
Thanks.

[Lasall]

Duplicate of #102