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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: slink install
>In a message dated 2/8/99 12:22:23 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>writ
>>
>> my version of dpkg is:
>> 1.4.0.23.2
>
>Hmmm... same version as me.
>
>I wonder if your status file is fubarred.
>Can you read it? "less /var/lib/dpkg/status"
>
>You should have a backup copy of it at /var/lib/dpkg/status-old
>that can be used to replace status if it is corrupted.
>
>Also,
-Original Message-
From: Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: rod peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: using dpkg
>rod peters wrote:
>> okay, here's what I get.
>>
>> ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>
ectory
(sorry about the last message, I made a mistake)
-Original Message-----
From: rod peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: debian
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: using dpkg
>
>-Original Message-
>Fr
rc.d' not found on PATH.
>dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
>NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and
/sbin.
>
>Thanks,
>-Mitch
>
>In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
>> I have been logged in as root.
>>
>> Now
I have been logged in as root.
Now what?
-Original Message-
From: M.C. Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Rod Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 2:24 AM
Subject: Re: using dpkg
>
>> When I try to use dpkg -
When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb)
I always get something like this:
cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status
what am I doing wrong?
I have read the --help and the man
pages but it doesn't give me any clues.
thanx
==
8?)
_
DO YOU YAHOO!
Yes! Thank you. That's probably the last directory I
would have looked in. Now I'm off to discover my next
problem.
rod.
I can't find qt1.42 anywhere. What directory under
potato is it in? Is that only a partial file name? Is it in an
archive file? If I wasn't wearin' my good socks I'd smack my computer up
side the head with my wiffle bat. I'm gettin kinda desperate.
Please, help me out. Just give me th
I need some help. I have tried with absolutely no luck
to install kde 1.1 with dpkg but I do not understand all the syntax.(do we still
use that term?) I think I have all the files except for qt1.42 as I am unsure of
exactly where to find it. Can someone please give me instructions for
ins
Could someone please send me an example dpkg command with
flags and such. I would like to try kde 1.1 pre2, but it is on my msdos
partition and I am unsure as to how to use dselect to install it. If
someone could post a fill-in-the-blanks dpkg command I would really appreciate
it.
thanks
-Original Message-
From: Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: rod peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: debian
Date: Saturday, January 30, 1999 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: fatal server error!
>X was split up into more packages, which don't get installed during an
>upgrade (th
Cripes!
fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno =
111
giving up.
xinit: connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X
server
xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error
I just upgraded to slink and now th
Hooray! I finally got my debian installation to work after
many weeks(months) of frustration. Thanks to everyone who gave their
suggestions. Now I am worse off before. I don't know how to talk to
linux. At all. I can do a few commands, cd, df, dir, and other
simple stuf. I don't know,
I need some help. I have been trying to install debian
for severl weeks. Today got me the most progress so far. I had my
installation almost running but I think I put in a wrong video or monitor value
and my system started blinking every half second. It was locked up so I
rebooted. Same
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