Re: [newbie] Install Prob: An error occurred when installingpackages (followup...)

2001-12-24 Thread tester
On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 19:28, Doug Lerner wrote: Followup: After unchecking the Office package option it seemed to proceed. But then the same error occurred again later on. Does the installation of packages actually work? doug Original post: While running the installer (boot floppy,

Re: [newbie] Install Prob: An error occurred wheninstallingpackages (followup...)

2001-12-24 Thread Doug Lerner
Don't you think it sounds more like an error in the Perl installer though - like a missing file reference? doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monday, December 24, 2001): On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 19:28, Doug Lerner wrote: Followup: After unchecking the Office package option it seemed to proceed. But

Re: [newbie] Install Prob: An error occurred when installingpackages (followup...)

2001-12-24 Thread s
On Monday 24 December 2001 07:31 am, you wrote: Don't you think it sounds more like an error in the Perl installer though - like a missing file reference? doug No, unless you have a bad download or burn. Try redownloading from different mirror, check the md5sums, and reburn it slow on

Re: [newbie] Install Prob: An error occurred wheninstallingpackages (followup...)

2001-12-24 Thread Doug Lerner
I like to eliminate the simplest possibilities first. :-) Since the Perl error message said missing file it seemed reasonable to ask if, perhaps, there simply was a missing file. Trying another CD drive is not really possible. My computer needs to boot from the internal one. It won't boot from

Re: [newbie] Install Prob: An error occurred when installingpackages (followup...)

2001-12-24 Thread s
On Monday 24 December 2001 08:18 am, you wrote: I like to eliminate the simplest possibilities first. :-) Well, I read where it was the shared memory thing. that's good. Good luck with the rest of it. How do I check the md5sums? md5sum --help will give you all the options, but

[newbie] Install Prob: An error occurred when installing packages

2001-12-23 Thread Doug Lerner
While running the installer (boot floppy, CD-ROM local drive), I get an error at the step where I select and install packages. After selecting packages, the estimating time screen comes up and then an error comes up: An error occurred invalid file '' pkgs::package File() called from

[newbie] Install Prob: An error occurred when installing packages(followup...)

2001-12-23 Thread Doug Lerner
Followup: After unchecking the Office package option it seemed to proceed. But then the same error occurred again later on. Does the installation of packages actually work? doug Original post: While running the installer (boot floppy, CD-ROM local drive), I get an error at the step where I

[newbie] Install Prob

2000-07-10 Thread Dave Naylor
Hi I tried installing Sawfish .30 on my Mandrake 7.1 system this morning but it seems to require libreadline.so.3 whereas I have so.4 installed. I wrote to the Sawfish author who tells me that it's because it was built on Red Hat 6.2 which uses so.3 unlike Mandrake which has so.4. He suggests

Re: [newbie] Install Prob

2000-07-10 Thread Paul
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Dave Naylor wrote: Hi I tried installing Sawfish .30 on my Mandrake 7.1 system this morning but it seems to require libreadline.so.3 whereas I have so.4 installed. I wrote to the Sawfish author who tells me that it's because it was built on Red Hat 6.2 which uses so.3

Re: [newbie] Install prob.

2000-03-05 Thread Dave Casper
Ok, I'm reading as fast as I can to catch up but you folks might be able to answer this one quicker than I can find it. How do you go about telling the install I want expert mode? (BTW it seems like I shouldn't be using expert mode if I don't even know how to get there. :-) Oh well, I'm willing