Assuming that this is the correct group to ask this type of question, could someone help with a couple of problems I'm having with Debian installation: First, dselect (which generally works very well), appears to have become broken somehow -- I can no longer change the Access method to use. If I try, I get the following: syntax error at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup line 112, near "print" Execution of /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup aborted due to compilation errors. query/setup script returned error exit status 2. Press RETURN to continue. Secondly, also with dselect, when I get new packages via FTP, they download correctly, but with the following message first:
Downloading files... use ^C to stop Connecting to ftp-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk... Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to /pub/debian... getting: frozen/binary-i386/admin/dftp_2.1-1.deb Not a GLOB reference at /usr/lib/perl5/IO/Handle.pm line 285, <STDIN> chunk 2 (#1) (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a "type glob" (that is, a symbol table entry that looks like *foo), but found a reference to something else instead. You can use the ref() function to find out what kind of ref it really was. See perlref. Finally, (sorry for the length of this!), I can't get the .deb of the kernel 2.0.23 to work. dpkg -i returns: # dpkg -i kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb (Reading database ... 30437 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kernel-source-2.0.23 (from kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb) ... dpkg: error processing kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb (--install): corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb I've tried downloading from both the local Cambrdige mirror and Sunsite at Imperial College, checking binary mode, etc., and I still get this. I *have* noticed that dselect shows the Avail. Ver. as 0 for this package -- presumably this is wrong? Thanks for any help, Richard Mortier, Churchill College, Cambridge ----------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) or [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Life is a near-Death experience" Terry Pratchett, a.b.p ----------------------------------------------------------- -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.