On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > Hi Lindsay! > > Too bad you didn't reply via debian-user! Please be so kind and post a > followup containing the solution so that others learn it too.
Point taken. > On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > On /debian/bo/binary-i386/admin/acct_6.2-4.deb I get :- > > > > /.. 2048 > > /CONTENTS 0 > > INFO 1206 > > *INSTALL 515 > > > > and it's the same story for all .deb files. > > > Yes, that is quite normal and makes me wonder what is the problem!? > Just go further on and enter the "./CONTENTS" subdirectory where you > will find what you have been searching for. If you press enter on > "*INSTALL" dpkg will install the package for you. I do this all the > time like this! ;-) Not so fast. <g> When I hit Enter on /CONTENTS I get /.. 0 and that's it. > > Maybe you mail me the bare binary of mc-4? I don't think that would help > > as I just compiled from scratch. I'm at a bit of a loss. I really like > > mc and have lots of time for the authors. If you happen to have made > > mc_4.x.y.deb I _would_ like a copy of that! > > > You can download an *unofficial* Debian binary (which i provided :) > from the MC homepage and the usual MC FTP sites. The sourcecode > containing the Debian specific config files can be downloaded from > "ftp://ietpd1.sowi.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian/unofficial/sources/";. There > is some other stuff as well. > Cheers, P. *8^) > -- > Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] > African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies > Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany > Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ Thanks to Paul, Dale, David and Dimitri for your help. I certainly understand things better now and it seems that the problem is not in mc at all. I just wiped every mc related file from my box and installed Paul's mc_4.0-linux-1_i386.deb and it behaves in exactly the same way. There is a lot of disk activity when I hit Enter on a .deb so I think the file is being opened. I just don't get to see the result. Lindsay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
