[Neurodebian-users] matlab-spm8 installation fails on lenny when calling mktemp (invalid option)

[Holger Krause]

Dear Neurodebian team,

while I could successfully install matlab-spm8 on lucid, the installation 
failed on lenny:

fibonacci:~# aptitude install spm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  matlab-spm8 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up matlab-spm8 (8.4290~dfsg.1-1~nd50+1) ...
mktemp: invalid option -- -
Usage: mktemp [-V] | [-dqtu] [-p prefix] [template]
dpkg: error processing matlab-spm8 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 matlab-spm8
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up matlab-spm8 (8.4290~dfsg.1-1~nd50+1) ...
mktemp: invalid option -- -
Usage: mktemp [-V] | [-dqtu] [-p prefix] [template]
dpkg: error processing matlab-spm8 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 matlab-spm8
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done

Does this mean, I need to upgrade the system?

Best regards,

Holger