I know I'm following up my own post here, but no-one else did.... On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, H C Pumphrey wrote:
> Just a small one: I tried installing the offix suite several times from my > Debian 2.0 CD. It never worked, presumably because of bug #27078:( libdnd1 > does not run ldconfig in the postinst!). None of the offix commands > appeared except for offix-editor and that didn't work, producing an error > along the lines of "I can't work because libdnd isn't installed properly. > > Is there a hack, kludge or other work-around which will install the offix > suite? (Preferably one that doesn't involve installing a large percentage > of slink!) The answer comes from parsing the one-line bug description and realising that if "libdnd1 does not run ldconfig in the postinst" then you just have to do it yourself: prompt# dpkg --install libdnd.<version_numbers>.deb prompt# ldconfig *then* install all the other offix stuff. Keep draggin' and droppin... Hugh ========================================================================== Hugh C. Pumphrey, Dept. of - | Tel. 0131-650-6026,Fax:0131-650-5780 Meteorology, Univ. of Edinburgh | Replace 0131 with +44-131 if outside U.K EDINBURGH EH9 3JZ, Scotland | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======P=l=e=a=s=e==N=o=t=e==t=h=e==N=e=w==F=A=X==N=u=m=b=e=r==============
