Re: Help installing debian "Other" packages

[Wayne Richardson]

Hi all,

I have found out that I am having a problem downloading the file from the
ftp site (sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/buzz/msdos-i386),
but I don't know how to fix it.  If I click on the file (using Netscape
Navigator), I get the binary garbage written out to my screen.  If I right
click on the file icon, and use the "Save Link As.." option, I can save it to
my hard disk.  The problem is that it is not saving this in a binary format.  I
can go to the Netscape options (Options | General Preferences... |
helpers) and add in the deb extention to the "application/x-compress"
entry but this still doesn't work.  I went through compuserve and
retrieved the same file using their ftp menu and then compared them
(saved the same file with a different name) doing a DOS command "fc
win95tmp.deb cmpsvtmp.deb /b" and they are way different.  I can copy
them both to diskette and the one that I downloaded from compuserve
will work but the other one won't.

What is wrong here?

Regards,
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Re: Help installing debian "Other" packages

[Paul Christenson]

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Wayne Richardson wrote:

> I can download these packages from the internet from my windows '95
> machine and then transfer them to the Linux system using a diskette. 

> When I try to run dpkg on these files I get errors. 

Are you *certain* that you are transferring them in BINARY mode?

Do you have your floppy drive mounted so that it does automatic *nix<->DOS
conversion?  (It shouldn't.)

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