Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 12:43:30PM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > I've checked binutils_2.11.92.0.12.3-6_powerpc.deb, and it does indeed > > > contain /usr/bin/as. This wouldn't be something screwing up $PATH, > > > perhaps? > > > > I must be missing something here: > > > > - $PATH looks fine > > - /usr/bin/as does not exist. > > That's really very odd. Could you have a look at the output of 'dpkg -c > /var/cache/apt/archives/binutils_2.11.92.0.12.3-6_powerpc.deb' and see > if it includes /usr/bin/as? If so, dpkg is screwing up - I'm not quite > sure how yet though. >
AHA! dpkg -c reports: tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolete base-64 headers ...and so on. Thanks for the pointer. Apparently the .deb was corrupted somewhere along the line. It's certainly confusing (any maybe a bug?) that dpkg -L doesn't report problems with the .deb. I downloaded another copy--one which passes the 'dpkg -c' test and installed properly. Thanks again, --rich ....let the coding begin.....
