On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:52:32PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi, thanks for trying to help.
I'd much rather help on the mailing list than in my inbox, though. :) The latter is 2100 messages large and growing, and keeping it under control is a daily effort ... > I kept reading the apt error messages and trying to fix them. I moved a > number of Perl files and directories to where Apt wanted them but it > kept preconfiguring pkgs but > "Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)" That's a summary of previous errors. What comes before it? > *** I am ready to continue the process of correcting apt's error > messages > but they now flash by too quickly to be legible and there is no way I'm > aware of, in the absence of a WM in console mode, of scrolling back and > reading in detail. Shift-PgUp? > Can they be viewed in a file somewhere? You can run apt-get inside a 'script' session to capture a transcript. > I tried to run perl <version> -V > > Tux:/usr/local/bin perl perl5.8.0 -V You don't do it like that - just '/usr/local/bin/perl -V', '/usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0 -V', etc. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug