On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:40:06PM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- > from math programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the > problem is one in which the 'make' closes with errors that list > dependencies it could not find. Occasionally, and perhaps unrelated, > the error message reads something like: expecting "fil2" and could not > find the file.
You'll have to be more specific. It's possible that you only have runtime versions of libraries involved, while you need development (-dev) versions in order to build programs that link against them. > The dpkg -i and apt-get install gives me similar problems. Those will be entirely different from the errors output by make. Again, details would help. Don't expect routinely to be able to install packages from woody/sid on a potato system, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
