Hi; I am running kernel 2.4.26 with debian distribution on PQ2FADS-ZU. I tried to download and install some packages from ftp sources but after the download, apt-get failed somehow:
PQ2FADS-ZU:~# apt-get install alien Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: binutils debconf-utils debhelper dpkg-dev file gettext gettext-base html2text intltool-debian libbz2-1.0 libc6 libdb3 libpopt0 librpm4 make patch po-debconf rpm Suggested packages: bzip2 lsb-rpm lintian binutils-doc dh-make gnupg debian-keyring cvs gettext-doc libbz2-dev locales glibc-doc ed Recommended packages: c-compiler curl wget lynx libmail-sendmail-perl libcompress-zlib-perl The following NEW packages will be installed: alien binutils debconf-utils debhelper dpkg-dev file gettext gettext-base html2text intltool-debian libbz2-1.0 libpopt0 librpm4 make patch po-debconf rpm The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 libdb3 2 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 71 not upgraded. Need to get 11.1MB of archives. After unpacking 20.7MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 [4232kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main libpopt0 1.7-5 [32.5kB] Get:3 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main libdb3 3.2.9-22 [247kB] Get:4 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main binutils 2.15-6 [2333kB] Get:5 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main patch 2.5.9-2 [99.8kB] Get:6 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main make 3.80-9 [437kB] Get:7 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main dpkg-dev 1.10.28 [166kB] Get:8 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main file 4.12-1 [30.5kB] Get:9 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main gettext-base 0.14.4-2 [102kB] Get:10 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-7 [42.6kB] Get:11 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main html2text 1.3.2a-2 [93.6kB] Get:12 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main debconf-utils 1.4.30.13 [33.0kB] Get:13 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main gettext 0.14.4-2 [1760kB] Get:14 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main intltool-debian 0.30+20040213 [23.5kB] Get:15 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main po-debconf 0.8.23 [78.0kB] Get:16 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main debhelper 4.2.32 [362kB] Get:17 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main librpm4 4.0.4-31 [387kB] Get:18 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main rpm 4.0.4-31 [526kB] Get:19 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main alien 8.52 [115kB] Fetched 11.1MB in 7m55s (23.3kB/s) E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly PQ2FADS-ZU:~# dpkg -i alien Killed PQ2FADS-ZU:~# echo $ARCH PQ2FADS-ZU:~# uname -a Linux PQ2FADS-ZU 2.4.26 #62 Wed Dec 14 16:00:08 MYT 2005 ppc GNU/Linux PQ2FADS-ZU:~# Any insight and advice is appreciated. One fundamental question, are all linux application packages (.rpm or .deb) kernel-version independant? Thanks. Regards, TEH Does apt-get automaticall checks the currently running kernel version and download/upgrade the -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]