On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Kent West wrote: > At 02:40 PM 4/21/1999 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I have downloaded Debian 2.1 and all of the packages to the harddrive > >on my Dell GX1 400MHz with a WD 6.4GB drive. I got the kernel and base > >system installed fine. Using 'dselect' I chose the Dialup default > >Profile for the install. The 'Access' and 'Update' options run fine > >and find all of the packages on my DOS partition. However, when I run > >through the 'Install' option it errors out saying, "Installation > >script returned error exit 1." I have reinstalled twice but it does > >the same thing. It sounds like there is some package dependant on some > >other but I'd prefer not to have to look through the more than 2000 > >packages.
Have you checked the "Select" section to see if dselect can tell you which dependancies you have? Just going into the lsiting and hitting enter to leave should bring up a dependancies screen if anything is wrong. Otherwise, watch the cascade as it tries to install everything, there's usually some sort of error message... If you're using the apt method, "apt-get dselect-upgrade" will work the same as install in dselect, but you can redirect stdout and stderr to make it easier to view. > Because dselect doesn't do as good of a job as apt at ordering the > installation of packages, sometimes you'll get a package installed prior to > the one it needs configured before it can be configured (go [con]figure!). > Just go through the configure phase 3 or 4 or 8 times and everything should > eventually settle out. Use the apt method in dselect! Read sources.list(5) for more information.
