DMD2 .deb fails to install on Ubuntu 10.10 – just remove »shell«?

2010-12-08 Thread klickverbot
Currently, this is what happens when you try to install the DMD 2 deb from digitalmars.com on a vanilla Ubuntu 10.10 box: sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/dmd_2.050-0_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package dmd. (Reading database ... 127418 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking

Re: DMD2 .deb fails to install on Ubuntu 10.10 – just remove »shell« ?

2010-12-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/8/10 5:41 AM, klickverbot wrote: Currently, this is what happens when you try to install the DMD 2 deb from digitalmars.com on a vanilla Ubuntu 10.10 box: sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/dmd_2.050-0_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package dmd. (Reading database ... 127418 files and direc

Re: DMD2 .deb fails to install on Ubuntu 10.10 – just remove »shell« ?

2010-12-08 Thread Walter Bright
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: This seems pretty urgent. Walter? I asked Jordi, who prepares the .deb files.

Re: DMD2 .deb fails to install on Ubuntu 10.10 – just remove »shell« ?

2010-12-08 Thread Walter Bright
Walter Bright wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: This seems pretty urgent. Walter? I asked Jordi, who prepares the .deb files. Should the binaries be installed on /usr/local/bin instead?

Re: DMD2 .deb fails to install on Ubuntu 10.10 – just remove »shell« ?

2010-12-08 Thread Ellery Newcomer
Quick - which gets executed first - /usr/bin/* or /usr/local/bin/* ? Either way, someone or something is going to be surprised. It would probably be a better idea to either remove or rename the less used ones. 'shell' is uncomfortably generic. Don't know if anyone does, but I have never used

Re: DMD2 .deb fails to install on Ubuntu 10.10 – just remove »shell« ?

2010-12-08 Thread Christopher Nicholson-Sauls
On 12/08/10 19:50, Ellery Newcomer wrote: > Quick - which gets executed first - /usr/bin/* or /usr/local/bin/* ? > > Either way, someone or something is going to be surprised. > > It would probably be a better idea to either remove or rename the less > used ones. 'shell' is uncomfortably generic

Re: DMD2 .deb fails to install on Ubuntu 10.10 – just remove »shell«?

2010-12-08 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 17:29 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > Walter Bright wrote: > > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> This seems pretty urgent. Walter? > > > > I asked Jordi, who prepares the .deb files. > > Should the binaries be installed on /usr/local/bin instead? No. The whole point of debs is

Re: DMD2 .deb fails to install on Ubuntu 10.10 – just remove »shell«?

2010-12-09 Thread Russel Winder
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 07:43 -0600, Seth Hoenig wrote: > Ah but you can! > > > sudo aptitude install gcc-multilib libc6-i386 lib6-dev-i386 > sudo aptitude install ia32-libs > sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture [dmdpackage] I tried that many, many moons ago. If I remember correctly it all faile