Re: [SLUG] THE DEPRESSED DEBIAN GUY ....
This one time, at band camp, Mick Boda wrote: >Hi All, > >Not realy depressed, a little frustrated, but mainly with my >inAPTitude with Debian ... Still, I must admit, amid the frustration >theres been some quality time refreshing my command-line stuff (which I >won't let lapse again, even when I get my GUI happening) and I'm >enjoying the learning experience. > >dpkg -|xserver xfree86 returns the following error That pipe should be a lower case el (as in LIMA). The name "xserver-xfree86" has a hyphen in it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] THE DEPRESSED DEBIAN GUY ....
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:00:07 +1100 Brett Fenton wrote: > Because after the pipe it's trying to execute the command. > > The command should be dpkg -l > > Brett > > :> -Original Message- *snip* > :> dpkg -|xserver xfree86 returns the following error > :> > :> xserver xfree86 command not found. And the correct package name is "xserver-xfree86" (without the quotes) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] THE DEPRESSED DEBIAN GUY ....
Because after the pipe it's trying to execute the command. The command should be dpkg -l Brett :> -Original Message- :> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of :> Mick Boda :> Sent: Monday, 24 March 2003 5:57 PM :> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :> Subject: [SLUG] THE DEPRESSED DEBIAN GUY :> :> :> Hi All, :> :> Not realy depressed, a little frustrated, but mainly with my :> inAPTitude with Debian ... Still, I must admit, amid the :> frustration :> theres been some quality time refreshing my command-line :> stuff (which I :> won't let lapse again, even when I get my GUI happening) and I'm :> enjoying the learning experience. :> :> dpkg -|xserver xfree86 returns the following error :> :> xserver xfree86 command not found. :> :> I'm still running 4.1 (according to /var/log/XFree86.0.log) :> :> There's no listing regarding any Xfree packages in :> ?var/cache/apt/archives :> :> Thanks all :> :> Mick :> :> -- :> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ :> More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug :> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
