On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I'm a new user of the Linux-system especially Debian-Linux. I recieved a CD
> > from you from July.
> > I've got a problem if a want to install other programs on my system:
> > I already installed the base-system and that's all. Now I want to install
> > X11, but if I start 'dselect` and say, that I want to install from CD the
> > program doesn't find a path on CD. The program want to know the top level of
> > the Debian system. If I enter a path (for example: /contrib), the program
> > says that the directory `/contrib/stable/binary-i386' doesn't exists. So I
> > look on the CD and there's no directory called `.../stable/...'. What have I
> > done wrong or what's wrong with the program/CD?
> > Is there another way to install other programs (like the (Win-)DOS-emulator
> > or editors...)
>
> You need to specify the path as:
>
> /YourCDMountPoint/contrib
>
> for the contrib sections. You might also want the updates directory:
>
> /YourCDMountPoint/updates
>
Sorry, I realized almost immediately after pressing send that I had
misunderstood your question. (It's what follows 'contrib' in the path that
dselect is not finding) I remember some discussion of this...try:
dpkg -i /YourCDMountPoint/updates/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.2.11elf.deb
and let me know if that resolves the issue.
On the other hand, you could copy the relevant directories off of the CD
and put them into the path structure that this version of dselect wants to
find them.
Hope this helps more than the last post,
Dwarf
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