i use potato, so i may make an error and tell you something that doesn't work in slink. If i do, someone should correct me.
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 06:27:41PM +0100, Jose Alberto Lobo wrote: > > After the problem was solved I restarted the process, > but saw that ALL non-installed files in the Debian ftp > site were marked "not installed; purge (was: purge)". It seems to have forgotten the ones you marked for install, but otherwise this is normal. > I still marked for installation those I wished (61 files > altogether), and proceeded to the next step, Install. But, > alas, a problem came: I got the following message: > > 11 packages upgraded, 61 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not > upgraded. > Need to get 280k/16.7M of archives. After unpacking 29.8M will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (<enter>) > Get ftp://ftp.es.debian.org stable/main man-db [280k] > ERROR > ftp://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/doc/man-db_2.3.10-69FIX.1.deb > > Incorrect MD5Sum Assuming you're using the dselect apt method, try deleting /var/cache/apt/archives/man-db_2.3.10-69FIX.1.deb. If that doesn't help, try downloading from a different mirror in case the one is corrupted somehow. > 2) Are there tools or methods to search the Debian > archive? The listing is enormous, and I don't see > (yet) the logic of the organisation, which makes > long and time consuming the simple task of finding > a given package. dpkg has several useful commands, in particular -s, -l, and -L. There is also a tool "dlocate" (which may be only in potato?) that does the same and more. For searching uninstalled packages, look to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > 3) Is it safe to install non-Debian packages in the > 'old' Slackware fashion (download .tgz, unpack, > compile, install)? For example, I would like to have > the newest version of teTeX --which I didn't find > in the archive, and also Netscape-4.7, acroread, > and others. Also, is it sensible to install the latest > kernel 2.2.14? I think I need at least. some 2.2 version. You should, of course, install them into /usr/local. The only problem that may occur is that some Debian packages depend on these, so if you want to install those packages you have to either create an empty package satisfying the dependancy or do some not nice things to the package status database. If you're not willing to upgrade to potato (understandable, it is unstable (althought the freeze is coming soon)), you could still try to compile potato packages from source. Note that there are several issues with this (Perl changes, changes in the package creation tools, debconf, /usr/{man,doc} -> /usr/share/{man,doc} transition). Check the archive for details. > I think I should mention at this point that I told apt to > remove certain packages I thought are not necessary for > my needs. Amongst them all teTeX related stuff and a > few of the many editors available --I use only emacsen. > May this have caused some of the problems described in > 1) above...? No, that shouldn't have anything to do with it. The system will complain if you try to remove anything essential, and it gives a useful error message if a package depends on something you don't have installed. > Finally, I don't seem to understand yet Debian's startup > process, as I don't know how to avoid a direct xdm screen > at the beginning, for example. If you don't want to use xdm at all, just remove the xdm package. If you don't want xdm to manage any local displays, edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to indicate that. If you just don't want xdm to start on boot, or only in certain runlevels, rename the appropriate /etc/rc?.d/S99xdm symlinks to K01xdm. > Another puzzling issue is that xterms and console don't seem to read > login profile files when launched --I have to enforce them via > 'source'. The 'su -' command presents this feature, too... i haven't had trouble with 'su -' not reading the login profile; rxvt requires the '-ls' option. Login on the console always reads my profile, as well... Perhaps someone else had this problem and can help you. > N.B.: Please note that my e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm not sure that this appears in the message's back address, > as I am now using a different computer to send this note. > I would appreciate your reply being sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > since this makes things easier for me. Thanks again. done -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added
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