Re: Help with dselect
Hi again I have tried the G option and its still got some packages which it stats will be removed etc.. is there any other way i can fix dselect ? --- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:31:07PM +1100, Medi Esmail wrote: HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a mistake i did using dselect, I was choosing the new kernel package and when it came up with dependencies i found some packages i had were removed etc any way i made some changes and went to the main menu of dselect and chose install at which point it came up with X number of packages were going to be removed etc and installed etc... at that point i wanted to backout and I chose No, so im back at my main menu. What I want to do now is revert all my selections and not go ahead with the new install and want the selection to go back to normal as it was before I selected anything. There's no one-shot way to do this in dselect at the moment. I filed a bug report a while back (#151540) with a patch to implement a single-keystroke command to do this, but to my annoyance it's been largely ignored. In the meantime, your best bet is to move the cursor onto each of the Updated packages (newer version is available), Up to date installed packages, and Available packages (not currently installed) headers in turn and use the 'G' (that's shift-g, unhold) command on each. You may have to repeat this a few times. I tried going into the /var/lib/dpkg directory and copied over status-old over the status.. I'm not sure what this will have done. Please any help would be highly appreciated (im a relativly new user and dont want to reinstall unless there is no other option). You should definitely not need to reinstall. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Medi Esmail Mobile: 0404085710 ICQ : 1679212 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with dselect
HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a mistake i did using dselect, I was choosing the new kernel package and when it came up with dependencies i found some packages i had were removed etc any way i made some changes and went to the main menu of dselect and chose install at which point it came up with X number of packages were going to be removed etc and installed etc... at that point i wanted to backout and I chose No, so im back at my main menu. What I want to do now is revert all my selections and not go ahead with the new install and want the selection to go back to normal as it was before I selected anything. I tried going into the /var/lib/dpkg directory and copied over status-old over the status.. that did remove the selection in dselect however if i choose install again it still has all the packages there to remove and add and upgrade as before even thou they dont showup in the dselect list .. Is there a way i can get dselect to reread my system and rebuild the list of whats installed and forget any packages which might be selected to install?? Please any help would be highly appreciated (im a relativly new user and dont want to reinstall unless there is no other option). thanks Medi = Medi Esmail Mobile: 0404085710 ICQ : 1679212 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with dselect
On (20/12/03 19:31), Medi Esmail wrote: HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a mistake i did using dselect, I was choosing the new kernel package and when it came up with dependencies i found some packages i had were removed etc any way i made some changes and went to the main menu of dselect and chose install at which point it came up with X number of packages were going to be removed etc and installed etc... at that point i wanted to backout and I chose No, so im back at my main menu. What I want to do now is revert all my selections and not go ahead with the new install and want the selection to go back to normal as it was before I selected anything. I tried going into the /var/lib/dpkg directory and copied over status-old over the status.. that did remove the selection in dselect however if i choose install again it still has all the packages there to remove and add and upgrade as before even thou they dont showup in the dselect list .. Is there a way i can get dselect to reread my system and rebuild the list of whats installed and forget any packages which might be selected to install?? Please any help would be highly appreciated (im a relativly new user and dont want to reinstall unless there is no other option). man dselect refers to: Establishing the requested selections However, if there are any unresolveded depends, dselect will again prompt the user with a dependency resolution screen. To alter a set of selections that creates unresolved depends or conflicts and forcing dselect to accept it, press the 'Q' key. This sets the selections as specified by the user, unconditionally. Generally, don't do this unless you've read the fine print. The opposite effect, to back out any selections change requests and go back to the previous list of selections, is attained by pressing the 'X' or escape keys. By repeatedly pressing these keys, any possibly detrimental changes to the requested package selections can be backed out completely to the last established settings. HTH Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with dselect
Hi Clive, I tried that initially but the problem i face is i have quit out of dselect frist time and now it remembers all the selections regardless if i press Q or X or Esc... when I go to Install packages I would like to hope and see there are no packages to install remove or upgrade but instead i see hte same message as before when i made the error and its got packages to remove upgrade etc .. before i did the message if i had gone in dselect (and nothing was selected to install or upgrade or remove ) i would see nothing to install upgrade or remove when i chose the Install option. All I wana do is get dselect to drop all the selections it has remembered and rescan whats loaded in the system and just remember that so I can re-do my selection again. Thanks :) Medi --- Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (20/12/03 19:31), Medi Esmail wrote: HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a mistake i did using dselect, I was choosing the new kernel package and when it came up with dependencies i found some packages i had were removed etc any way i made some changes and went to the main menu of dselect and chose install at which point it came up with X number of packages were going to be removed etc and installed etc... at that point i wanted to backout and I chose No, so im back at my main menu. What I want to do now is revert all my selections and not go ahead with the new install and want the selection to go back to normal as it was before I selected anything. I tried going into the /var/lib/dpkg directory and copied over status-old over the status.. that did remove the selection in dselect however if i choose install again it still has all the packages there to remove and add and upgrade as before even thou they dont showup in the dselect list .. Is there a way i can get dselect to reread my system and rebuild the list of whats installed and forget any packages which might be selected to install?? Please any help would be highly appreciated (im a relativly new user and dont want to reinstall unless there is no other option). man dselect refers to: Establishing the requested selections However, if there are any unresolveded depends, dselect will again prompt the user with a dependency resolution screen. To alter a set of selections that creates unresolved depends or conflicts and forcing dselect to accept it, press the 'Q' key. This sets the selections as specified by the user, unconditionally. Generally, don't do this unless you've read the fine print. The opposite effect, to back out any selections change requests and go back to the previous list of selections, is attained by pressing the 'X' or escape keys. By repeatedly pressing these keys, any possibly detrimental changes to the requested package selections can be backed out completely to the last established settings. HTH Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Medi Esmail Mobile: 0404085710 ICQ : 1679212 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with dselect
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:31:07PM +1100, Medi Esmail wrote: HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a mistake i did using dselect, I was choosing the new kernel package and when it came up with dependencies i found some packages i had were removed etc any way i made some changes and went to the main menu of dselect and chose install at which point it came up with X number of packages were going to be removed etc and installed etc... at that point i wanted to backout and I chose No, so im back at my main menu. What I want to do now is revert all my selections and not go ahead with the new install and want the selection to go back to normal as it was before I selected anything. There's no one-shot way to do this in dselect at the moment. I filed a bug report a while back (#151540) with a patch to implement a single-keystroke command to do this, but to my annoyance it's been largely ignored. In the meantime, your best bet is to move the cursor onto each of the Updated packages (newer version is available), Up to date installed packages, and Available packages (not currently installed) headers in turn and use the 'G' (that's shift-g, unhold) command on each. You may have to repeat this a few times. I tried going into the /var/lib/dpkg directory and copied over status-old over the status.. I'm not sure what this will have done. Please any help would be highly appreciated (im a relativly new user and dont want to reinstall unless there is no other option). You should definitely not need to reinstall. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with dselect and custom debs
I have created some .deb files for use in our department, they customise our debian installs and allow us to automatically update files on our machines through apt-get upgrade. I have these files on our departmental ftp server, under a debian mirror-like directory stucture, where our homebrew debs are under stable/contrib/binary-i386. The Packages.gz file and Release file are present, the site is in the sources.list file correctly, and apt-get is able to install, update, upgrade, etc with no problems. My problem is this - I have a task packages which insures all the packages we need locally are installed, and I want to use dselect during installation of a system to simply select this task and go. I add our local ftp site to sources.list, but when I do an update in dselect, I get the following: Building Dependency Tree... Done Merging Available information E: read, still have 1 to read but none left update available list script returned error exit status 100. The relevant output for my local archive is: Hit ftp://ftp.my.host.edu potato/ece Packages Hit ftp://ftp.my.host.edu potato/ece Release It doesn't say anything else. When I go to select after this, none of my local packages show up, and none of the packages from the main mirror I use show up - just the installed base system files are listed. This also happens running dselect on already installed machines. Can anyone tell me what I may have done wrong? Thanks all... Ken -- - Kenneth Lett ECE Support -
Re: help with dselect (on m68k)
OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files. That's why it can't find the directories when I direct it to them. This is probably my fault, though I'm not exactly sure why. I downloaded the cd image from the debian ftp site and made a CD. I was sure to make it 9660 format and can see all the files and folders on it with my Mac, I just can't get to them with the Linux box. Has anyone made a CD for 68K Mac from this image before? Is so, what is the secret. I tried making another disk at only 2x speed and that didn't work either. I know I have a complete valid CD image, I just can't copy it. David Kachel
Re: help with dselect
I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: /dev/cdrom ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD. No matter what I enter, it says it can't find it. This is the standard Mac m68k CD #1, so it shouldn't have any trouble. What on earth is it wanting me to input? Other then not being able to mount the CD it might be that it want a path like stable or Debian/stable or something to that effect. In case the CD is indeed mounted I would try to switch to another vt, examine the contents of the Cd with ls and try to let dselect some of the paths.
Re: help with dselect (on m68k)
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, David said: OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files. That's why it can't find the directories when I direct it to them. This is probably my fault, though I'm not exactly sure why. I downloaded the cd image from the debian ftp site and made a CD. I was sure to make it 9660 format and can see all the files and folders on it with my Mac, I just can't get to them with the Linux box. Has anyone made a CD for 68K Mac from this image before? Is so, what is the secret. I tried making another disk at only 2x speed and that didn't work either. I know I have a complete valid CD image, I just can't copy it. What command did you use to make the cd? You need to use a byte for byte duplicator in order to make the cd from the image. Did you use Linux to make the cd with dd if=[/file/cd/image] of=[/device/name/of/cdwriter] or did you use a mac utility? A byte for byte duplicator will put the filesystem on the cd for you as it is contained in the image. -ptw-
Re: help with dselect (on m68k)
OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files. That's why it can't find the directories when I direct it to them. This is probably my fault, though I'm not exactly sure why. I downloaded the cd image from the debian ftp site and made a CD. I was sure to make it 9660 format and can see all the files and folders on it with my Mac, I just can't get to them with the Linux box. Has anyone made a CD for 68K Mac from this image before? Is so, what is the secret. I tried making another disk at only 2x speed and that didn't work either. I know I have a complete valid CD image, I just can't copy it. What command did you use to make the cd? You need to use a byte for byte duplicator in order to make the cd from the image. Did you use Linux to make the cd with dd if=[/file/cd/image] of=[/device/name/of/cdwriter] or did you use a mac utility? A byte for byte duplicator will put the filesystem on the cd for you as it is contained in the image. I found the problem and made another CD last night (the third!). It works just fine. Now all I have to do is wrestle with dselect's intransigent march to the sea! Thanks. David Kachel
Re: help with dselect
I just take the default by hitting enter numerous times. The path depends on who made the CD, I would guess. On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote: how did you mount the cd-rom? (what commands did you use?) here's how i do it: # mount /dev/hdc /bt (where /bt is a directory i created.) i can then type ls /bt and see what's on the cd (as long as it's not a music cd). hth. I don't think dselect is going to let me ls a CD is it? Besides, everyone who has installed (recently) on a 68K Mac must have the same CD I have, and must already know the correct path to enter. It would be really helpful if someone would just tell me the path that dselect is asking for?? I can go backwards from there to figure out why I didn't get it. David Kachel -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: help with dselect
I'm on a PC so things might be different: Debian 2.1 r 2 dselect will try to mount my cdrom on /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt. The install process creates this. The path my dselect defaults to is /debian/dists/stable. All of this is default. I'm not sure why you aren't getting these defaults... On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Clyde Wilson wrote: I just take the default by hitting enter numerous times. The path depends on who made the CD, I would guess. On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote: how did you mount the cd-rom? (what commands did you use?) here's how i do it: # mount /dev/hdc /bt (where /bt is a directory i created.) i can then type ls /bt and see what's on the cd (as long as it's not a music cd). hth. I don't think dselect is going to let me ls a CD is it? Besides, everyone who has installed (recently) on a 68K Mac must have the same CD I have, and must already know the correct path to enter. It would be really helpful if someone would just tell me the path that dselect is asking for?? I can go backwards from there to figure out why I didn't get it. David Kachel -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: help with dselect
This is really getting off the track. I'm getting advice on how to mount a CD and as far as I can tell, I am not having any trouble mounting a CD. I am having trouble determining what path dselect is asking for ON the CD. AFTER the CD is mounted, dselect asks me for the path to the folder / file it wants for installing from the CD. Anyone who has recently, successfully installed the current release version of debian Linux on a Mac 68K has to know the correct answer to this question or they couldn't have installed it... Please! What is the path I need to input? David Kachel
Re: help with dselect (on m68k)
Clyde was just trying to help you, you need to be more patient and read more carefully. On most install cds, the distribution path is: /debian/dists/stable If it is not there your on your own. I would suggest exploring the cd and writing down the path when you've found it, then go back to dselect. My expirience with dselect (on i386) tells me that the standard path to the distribution is usually mentioned in the dialog when you are asked for the path. If the suggested path is incorect, then you must look for it yourself. And yes, there ARE non-standard install cds out there. good luck, -ptw-
Re: help with dselect (on m68k)
Clyde was just trying to help you, you need to be more patient and read more carefully. You're right. It's been a very frustrating day all around. Sorry. It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term anywhere in any of the documentation, I'm stuck! What is a block device, and how do I get its name? (Should I name it Shirly, Bruce, Albatross?) David Kachel
Re: help with dselect (on m68k)
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote:
It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect
asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term
anywhere in any of the documentation, I'm stuck! What is a block device,
and how do I get its name? (Should I name it Shirly, Bruce, Albatross?)
amber{jgg}~#dmesg | grep -i cd
hdb: CD-ROM 36X/AKW, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdb: ATAPI 36X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
/dev/hdb is the block device name for the CD. It will be printed during
bootup, but you can review the boot messages with the 'dmesg' command. You
should edit /etc/fstab and put an entry like this:
/dev/hdb/cdromauto noauto,ro,defaults,user0 0
Depending on your m68k, your CD interface may be something entirely
different (scsi?) or it may need a special module.. Look at the boot
messages.
Jason
Re: help with dselect
It would be really helpful if someone would just tell me the path that dselect is asking for?? I can go backwards from there to figure out why I didn't get it. First, I need to say that I've never installed Debian on a Mac, so my suggestion could be plain dumb. Well, said suggestion is: Just enter nothing. IIRC on a PC this tells dselect to do a search on the specified device. Tobias
Re: help with dselect (on m68k)
David Kachel wrote: You're right. It's been a very frustrating day all around. Sorry. It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term anywhere in any of the documentation, I'm stuck! What is a block device, and how do I get its name? (Should I name it Shirly, Bruce, Albatross?) Block device names follow a simple naming convention under Linux. For example, the first disk on the first ide controller is always /dev/hda, the second is always /dev/hdb, etc. I believe, but am not sure, that the m68k achetecture uses scsi devices only. Scsi devices would be named /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. On your system you would need to know how many scsi devices are installed on your scsi controller (I believe your machine is likely to only have one scsi controller, but I could be wrong.) Check the scsi id numbers on each of your scsi devices and determine where your cdrom fits in the order. (if you have three scsi devices with scsi id numbers 1, 3, and 6, and your cdrom has been assigned scsi id 6, then your cdrom is /dev/sdc). I hope that this helps somewhat. My help may be inacurate in some minor ways as I am not familiar with the m68k archetecture. You can feel free to flame me horribly if I've steered you wrong. I sugest that you visit http://www.linux-m68k.org , http://www.mac.linux-m68k for better information. Have fun! -ptw-
help with dselect
I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: /dev/cdrom ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD. No matter what I enter, it says it can't find it. This is the standard Mac m68k CD #1, so it shouldn't have any trouble. What on earth is it wanting me to input? TIA David Kachel
Re: help with dselect
dkphoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: /dev/cdrom ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD. No matter what I enter, it says it can't find it. This is the standard Mac m68k CD #1, so it shouldn't have any trouble. What on earth is it wanting me to input? David, is the CD mounted? If not, have a look at mount command. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Re: help with dselect
David, is the CD mounted? If not, have a look at mount command. dselect says it's mounted. (after I enter: dev/cdrom in response to its query) What sort of input is it looking for? Could you give me at least an example? Maybe that would help to clear the fog. David Kachel
Re: help with dselect
On 26 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: dkphoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: /dev/cdrom ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD. No matter what I enter, it says it can't find it. This is the standard Mac m68k CD #1, so it shouldn't have any trouble. What on earth is it wanting me to input? David, is the CD mounted? If not, have a look at mount command. I don't think it has to be mounted... -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: help with dselect
how did you mount the cd-rom? (what commands did you use?) here's how i do it: # mount /dev/hdc /bt (where /bt is a directory i created.) i can then type ls /bt and see what's on the cd (as long as it's not a music cd). hth. I don't think dselect is going to let me ls a CD is it? Besides, everyone who has installed (recently) on a 68K Mac must have the same CD I have, and must already know the correct path to enter. It would be really helpful if someone would just tell me the path that dselect is asking for?? I can go backwards from there to figure out why I didn't get it. David Kachel
Help on dselect
Good day sir I have a problem, I installed Linux on my personal computer but, when I load dselect to install the software I got with the Linux cd's I don't have the option multi_cd in Access to load this software. When I use the cd-rom choise it ask me for the device block name that I don't know. Sir can you give me any advice how to load my software or at least how to get the multi_cd choice in dselect. Thank you. Hannes Nortjé _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Help on dselect
johannes nortje wrote: Good day sir I have a problem, I installed Linux on my personal computer but, when I load dselect to install the software I got with the Linux cd's I don't have the option multi_cd in Access to load this software. When I use the cd-rom choise it ask me for the device block name that I don't know. Sir can you give me any advice how to load my software or at least how to get the multi_cd choice in dselect. Thank you. Hannes Nortjé For the most common case, you probably have an IDE hard drive and an IDE ATAPI cdrom. If that is the case, the hard drive is most likely /dev/hda, and your cdrom is probably /dev/hdb. If you have different hardware type/configuration like having two hard drives instead of one, or having a non-atapi cdrom, you'll need to tell us what kind of hardware you have. -- Ed C.
help with dselect
Hi, It's me again, trying desperately to learn Linux... I am trying to use dselect to install some packages into my new install of Debian.. but every time I try to start installing, I get the message: Packages yet to be unpacked: 304 in unknown: vim gnushogi xphoon pwgen tcl8.0 tk8.0 libpaperg... dpkg-split: unable to read depot directory '/var/lib/dpkg/parts/': No such file or directory installation script returned error exit status 1. press RETURN to continue ??? being the traditional Win95 user I know nothing of what is going on! The machine is a Compaq Contura 3/25, 6mb RAM, 115mb HD. I'm sure it's just something I did wrong though. I need to get this dselect working, so I can install manpages, and then I can setup Lilo so I do not have to put in the boot disk every time! Another couple dumb questions while I am at it: * I accidentaly did not enter a password for root when I set up debian. what is the command to change that password. * What do I need to do to use my modem to dial up with a terminal program? Iguess I need to get dselect to work first, eh? =) Thanks again, you guys are a great group of people. thanks for all the great responses about Lilo! Tony
Re: help with dselect again plz
On 25-Jun-97 joost witteveen wrote: Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: Installing files... (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/fl oat bg_1.0-6.deb (--install): files list file for package `mgetty-fax' contains empty filename Errors were encountered while processing: debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/floatbg_1.0-6.deb Processing was halted because there were too many errors. DPKG ERROR I'm not even sure what file I need to edit. Neighter am I. But it may well help if you try to install floatbg by hand: type dpkg -i debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/floatbg_1.0-6.deb I've done that, which made me try installing it via dselect, I perfer to install by hand (where you'll probably have to edit the true path to the binary). If that doesn't work, try to reinstall mgetty-fax, there appears to be something wrong there too (preferalby using the above manual method again). If eighter goes wrong, I'm sure we'll be able to help you better when you give us the error messages produced then. But probably all's well then Same error message when I try install any deb And I can't to find `mgetty-fax' on ftp.debian.org I tried the search engine but it keeps timing out but I think that I would get the same result as the above error msg reason being it happens when it starts reading the database.. Any and All Help is Very Welcome Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help with dselect again plz
Do you want to install the files fetched [y]:
Installing files...
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/float
bg_1.0-6.deb (--install):
files list file for package `mgetty-fax' contains empty filename
Errors were encountered while processing:
debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/floatbg_1.0-6.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
DPKG ERROR
I'm not even sure what file I need to edit.
Neighter am I. But it may well help if you try to install floatbg
by hand: type
dpkg -i debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/floatbg_1.0-6.deb
(where you'll probably have to edit the true path to the binary).
If that doesn't work, try to reinstall mgetty-fax, there appears
to be something wrong there too (preferalby using the above manual
method again).
If eighter goes wrong, I'm sure we'll be able to help you better
when you give us the error messages produced then. But probably
all's well then.
--
joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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help with dselect again plz
Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: Installing files... (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/float bg_1.0-6.deb (--install): files list file for package `mgetty-fax' contains empty filename Errors were encountered while processing: debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/floatbg_1.0-6.deb Processing was halted because there were too many errors. DPKG ERROR I'm not even sure what file I need to edit. Any and All help is welcome Peter DEBIAN the best LINUX distribution GNU there simply isn't any other way to go -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
help with dselect
Hi! Today I connected to ftp.debian.org with dselect to see if there was any new packages. It was and among them there was a new version of sysklogd. Now the dependences for this one states that it depends on bash (2.0.1). When using ftp I have chosen [unstable contrib non-free] for my FTP-selections, this means that the only available bash is 2.0.2 with is 2.0.1 Now my question. Is there a way to tell dselect not to try installing this new version, not using the - wich causes it to be removed the next time you do remove. What now happened was that it tried to install it but wasn't able to. It was able to trash my old one though. /Micke -- --- E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] HomePage : http://mds.mdh.se/~cel95mhl PGP-Key available from : http://mds.mdh.se/~cel95mhl or finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with dselect
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Mikael Hallendal wrote: Today I connected to ftp.debian.org with dselect to see if there was any new packages. It was and among them there was a new version of sysklogd. Now the dependences for this one states that it depends on bash (2.0.1). When using ftp I have chosen [unstable contrib non-free] for my FTP-selections, this means that the only available bash is 2.0.2 with is 2.0.1 Now my question. Is there a way to tell dselect not to try installing this new version, not using the - wich causes it to be removed the next time you do remove. in dselect's Select mode, move the cursor to the bash package and press H to hold the package. This will prevent dselect from upgrading bash until you either up/down-graded it by hand with dpkg or until you unhold it by pressing G. Unless you want to find lots of shell scripts on your system which are incompatible with the new bash 2.0 then you dont want to upgrade bash anyway. If you've already installed bash 2.0 then you'll have to downgrade it by hand with dpkg. ftp bash 1.14.7-2 from the stable tree and install it with 'dpkg -i'. Remember to Hold bash again in dselect, otherwise it will just be upgraded automatically again next time you run dselect Install. Craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
