On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:17:53AM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote: > * Theo Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020122 07:01]: > > Hi All > > > > I have been struggling to get mutt installed on my 2.2r3 poptato > > system. > > > > When I run apt-get install mutt it works fine however when I go into > > it the cursor just flashes and nothing else works. I then read > > somewhere that the following needs to be installed: > > > > ncurses and slang > > you can find the package names with > apt-cache search --names-only slang > apt-cache search --names-only ncurses > > > A normal apt-get on either of these did not work so I then downloaded > > the tar.gz and ran it like that. Both installed no problem. > > Three pointers if you compile the source yourself: > > 1) Have the "-dev"-versions of the libraries installed too: If a package > needs i.E. libncurses4 then to compile it you need libncurses4-dev > as well > 2) Maybe you have luck downloading the source of the woody or sid > package. For mutt you would have to go to > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/non-us/mutt.html > Down the page there is a 'Source Code' line. Download the 'dsc', the > 'orig.tar.gz' and the 'diff.gz' files into some directory, go to that > directory and enter 'dpkg-source -x name-of-dsc-file'. > This will give you an folder with the program source, debian patches > applied and the possibility to build a package from that easily by > entering that folder and issuing 'fakeroot debian/rules binary'. > If you're lucky this will give you a nice deb package suiting to your > system. If you're unlucky come back here :-)
got the following files: mutt_1.3.26.orig.tar.gz mutt_1.3.26-1.diff.gz. Now do you mean dpkg-source -x mutt_1.3.26.orig.tar.gz and dpkg-source -x mutt_1.3.26-1.diff.gz. Cos if you do then this is what I get: dpkg-source -x mutt_1.3.26.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: error: syntax error in source control file ./mutt_1.3.26.orig.tar.gz at line 1: line with unknown format (not field-colon-value) and dpkg-source -x mutt_1.3.26-1.diff.gz dpkg-source: error: syntax error in source control file ./mutt_1.3.26-1.diff.gz at line 1: line with unknown format (not field-colon-value) I'm getting a lot of errors since yesterday, perhaps I should just upgrade to 2.2r5 and then see what happens....? > 3) If you want to compile by hand use GNU stow at least. It saves a lot > of hazzle (just my 2c). > > -- > Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CAU-University Kiel, Germany > Registered Linux User #221014 (http://counter.li.org) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---end quoted text--- -- Theo Bierman Customer Implementation Team UUNET S.A., a WorldCom Company Tel: +27 11 235-6621 Fax: +27 11 235-6501 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Customer Service Centre: 08600 UUNET / 08600 88638 http://www.uunet.co.za
