Hi, as I warned, I have many more questions. Here are the first three: 1. This question is more of a general bash question and if I shouldn't be posting it here someone let me know and I won't pester this group about it any more. All the following applies to the root account, I haven't checked it for an ordinary user yet.
After I modified my root/.bash_profile and /.bashrc files to include a couple of alias commands dselect started telling me that I needed /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin in my PATH when I ran the Install part of it. So added the line: set PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" to /root/.bash_profile and /root/.bashrc. In addition, in /etc/profile is the lines: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:." PS1="\\$ " export PATH PS1 Now when I say echo $PATH in the login shell I get: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:. and when I say echo $PATH in shells started with xterm (in shells started after the first shell in an xsession gets started) I get: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11 As you can see the PATH in the login shell didn't seem to get the /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin or /sbin directories and the PATH in the xterm shell doesn't have /usr/games in it. I checked and executables in the /usr/games directory aren't recognized in the xterm shell. One other anomaly I noticed is that the type size is smaller in the shell started by xterm. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? The next two questions are more debian related. 2. I'm trying to add packages to my installation, among them lyx and mailcrypt and taper. Dselect complains that lyx needs the package xforms and mailcrypt needs pgp. However, I have downloaded both of these packages and told dselect about them. When it asks to Enter _main_ binary dir I tell it /dos/deblin/buzz-fix/i386 Enter _contrib_ binary dir I tell it /dos/deblin/contrib/i386 and for Enter _non-free_ binary dir I tell it /dos/deblin/non-free/i386. which is where both the packages.gz and the .deb files reside. I then tell it to Update and then Select and the list in select contains the packages I expect to see, including pgp-us.deb and xforms.deb. However, it doesn't seem to install these and I still get errors telling me that lyx wants xforms and mailcrypt wants pgp. It also tells me that taper wants ftape which I don't have (see question 3). What am I doing wrong with dselect that it won't recognize packages which I know are there? 3. I can't find ftape anywhere. Does anyone know where to find this? Thanks in advance. Chris Beamis