problem with lesstif2 installation

2013-01-14 Thread Fred
Hello, I am working with Debian Squeeze on a Sun Ultra 5 and am having trouble installing lesstif2-0.95.2-1.1. The package appears to install ok but no files are actually written. I have an x86 PC also with Debian 6.0 and lesstif2 installed so I can see what files are involved and where

Re: problem with lesstif2 installation

2013-01-14 Thread Patrick Baggett
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/sparc/lesstif2/filelist (From http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/sparc/lesstif2) It looks like it has *.so files in the package. I just downloaded it and the size of the *.deb matches the site. Maybe you can do some checking? 1) Do you not have

Re: problem with lesstif2 installation

2013-01-14 Thread Fred
Hi Patrick, I have both library files. I don't know how to check the MD5 sum. I assume apt-get would do that before install. The .deb file I downloaded by ftp has a size of 620414 (using wc -c). The file at your link http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/sparc/lesstif2 has a size of 608.5 kB.

Re: problem with lesstif2 installation

2013-01-14 Thread Patrick Baggett
OK, so you have both libraries meaning then at least it appears you should be able to run an application based on lesstif2, right? Also, 620414 / 1024 is ~ 605.87, which could be rounded to 606KB. I download one via HTTP. I see a size of 623092, which is 608.48, rounds down to 608KB. I'm not

Re: problem with lesstif2 installation

2013-01-14 Thread Fred
Hi Patrick, The x86PC shows a lot of other files associated with lesstif which aren't on the Sun. The reason I needed lesstif is to run nedit. I couldn't get the binary package to run and it wouldn't compile from source apparently because it couldn't find lesstif. However, now the binary