On Sun, Nov 16, 1997 at 10:06:53PM +0000, Bill Leach wrote: > OK, that was probably the case as fvwm2 is now working. However, I do think > that it would be more useful is dselect/ > dpkg reported "configured". > > Linux# dpkg --configure fvwm2 > dpkg: error processing fvwm2 (--configure): > package fvwm2 is not ready for configuration > cannot configure (current status `installed') > Errors were encountered while processing: > fvwm2 > > To me, that seems to be saying that fvwm2 still needs configuration but there > is something wrong. Now I admit > that this is no doubt due in part to my own ignorance. I suspect now that if > the package was not configured that the parenthetical statement would read > something like: > (current status 'unpacked') -- yes?
Something like that. I agree that "not ready for configuration" is not the best message. Perhaps you could file a bug against dpkg? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [***** ] 59% Your train has been cancelled due to defective government at Spring Street.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
