> > > do you know my next question? "can't load libtcl.so" > > > BTW, I was denied permission for dpkg'ing from the cd-rom (had to cp > > > to /tmp). > > > > Well I hope you're seeing a pattern by now, but you need tcl76. > > I've also installed tclx76 (and tk42), and "still can't load libtcl.so" > I'll leave it for tomorrow, it's far too late (early) over here... thanks.
May be a more experienced user would be seeing a pattern at this point, even at an earlier point, but take into account that I've been using Debian for about a month now. When, and if, all this is over I hope to see it more clear from reviewing the errors and steps. Right now, I've installed all the libraries you told me (plus tclx76 & tk42) with the above result yet (can't load libtcl.so). Now the issue is no longer to have papyrus (or for that matter scriptum,...) up and running for the sake of it, I could use LyX instead of papyrus (... or any editor instead of scriptum), but to get the feeling of how these things work. ------ > I can't reproduce your problem - it converted to a deb file fine and > didn't write anything to files in /. Are you sure you didn't install the > .deb? dpkg -s scriptum should say. Do you mean you converted it to a .deb package just by: alien -d scriptum...tgz ??? I've done it yet again and it happened all over again: no .deb package, and a tree directory right in / ( /scriptum...). I couldn't use dpkg since there was no .deb to use with. If "alien -d papyrus...tar.gz" had not generated a papyrus...deb package, I would think there's an implicit installation procedure with the "-d" option in alien (may be not with a ".tar.gz" but with a ".tgz"?). -------------------------------------------------- El hombre-masa actual es, en efecto, un primitivo, que por los bastidores se ha deslizado en el viejo escenario de la civilización. Ortega y Gasset - La Rebelión de las Masas. -------------------------------------------------- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
