[HELP:]howto hamm-slink + dpkg problems

1998-10-02 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello,

i didn't find any README in the slink directory, so how does the upgrade work
(and the maintenance...) do i simply install the packages of the slink
directory?

In fact i would like to have packages like gnome easily installed and
maintained through dselect... and that seems possible only upgrading to
slink...


second problem: my system seems to have problems with dpkg, i couldn't get it
install the gmp package, no way i corresponded with the package mantainer
but after some initial guesses, didn't hear anymore from him :(

result are some packages that are set as broken
further when trying to retrieve non-US packages, despite the fact that the
Package file is fetched at the right location, when trying to download the path
used by dselect is worng:
Checking for Packages file...
/pub/mirror/non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/hamm/binary-i386/Packages.gz
but:
Connecting to ftp.inka.de...
Login as anonymous...
Setting transfer mode to binary...
Cd to `/debian'...
getting: dists/stable/non-US/binary-i386/pgp-us_2.6.3a-4.deb (283332)
dists/stable/non-US/binary-i386/pgp-us_2.6.3a-4.deb: No such file or directory.



Re: [HELP:]howto hamm-slink + dpkg problems

1998-10-02 Thread Jens Ritter
Bruno Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 hello,
 
 i didn't find any README in the slink directory, so how does the upgrade work
 (and the maintenance...) do i simply install the packages of the slink
 directory?
 
 In fact i would like to have packages like gnome easily installed and
 maintained through dselect... and that seems possible only upgrading to
 slink...

Install apt. And set it up.
You can then install packages from slink by:

apt-get install gnome

It will automatically fulfill the necessary dependencies.

Your system still remains hamm (in most places).

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