On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:50:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:40:06 -0500 sam rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- from > > math > > programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the problem is one in > > which the 'make' closes with errors that list dependencies it could not > > find. > > Occasionally, and perhaps unrelated, the error message reads something like: > > expecting "fil2" and could not find the file. I take this to mean that the > > make > > program was not satisfied with an earlier version. The dpkg -i and apt-get > > install gives me similar problems. I am using Debian2.2r2 on a more-or-less > > standard box (AMD 400Mz chip, only linux 2.2.20, etc.) > > > > What's the best remedy? > > > > Thanks, > > > > sam > > Are you trying to upgrade to a higher version of stable, or move > up to woody?
woody > What does your sources.list look like? deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/debian woody main contrib non-free # may occasionally have problems? # deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp1.sourceforge.net/debian woody main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/debian woody main contrib non-free # deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free # deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main