Thanks, Craig -
> "Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Craig> if you install dpgk again before removing adpkg, nothing will
Craig> break:
Craig> dpkg -i dpkg_1.4.0.8.deb dpkg -r --force-remove-essential
Craig> adpkg
Craig> I've successfully removed adpkg
On 12 May 1997, Ed Donovan wrote:
> While the topic is raised--I installed adpkg a while ago, mistakenly
> thinking it could come out cleanly if I wanted to remove it. I haven't
> used deb2asc or asc2deb yet, and don't think I'm using anything else
> provided by adpkg. I'd like to remove it for
> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christoph> Those tools are in the adpkg package... But that package
Christoph> also has an experimental version of dpkg in it. I will
Christoph> put it back somehow. If you have access to an earlier
Christoph> versi
Those tools are in the adpkg package... But that package also has an
experimental version of dpkg in it. I will put it back somehow. If you
have access to an earlier version of adpkg then get that.
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Igor Grobman wrote:
>There used to exist 2 utilities called deb2asc and asc2de
There used to exist 2 utilities called deb2asc and asc2deb which were very
useful for this kind of thing. They were part of debmake at one time then were
moved to adpkg, and after adpkg's removal from distribution seem to have
disappeared.
Christoph,
would you put them back into debmake or any
I remember reading, maybe on the lesstif web site, that lesstif now uses
different lib naming conventions so it can co-exist with motif.
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> > 1. what's the dirty way to modify the config files so debian thinks
> > lesstif is installed?
>
> I don't thi
> 1. what's the dirty way to modify the config files so debian thinks
> lesstif is installed?
I don't think that this will work. lesstif isn't binary compatible with
motif AFAIK, only source-level. So to use programs linked against lesstif,
you will need lesstif, and not motif (ofcourse you could
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
> Can someone tell me how I can trick debian into thinking that a
> package is installed?
>
Get hold of the unofficial package "equivs-1.0.deb-unoff.src.tar.gz"
from "http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pseelig/debian.html"; and have a look at
it. This is a small hac
Hi,
Can someone tell me how I can trick debian into thinking that a package is
installed? Specifically, I have the real motif installed on my system.
However, since this is (obviously) not a debian package, debian has no
idea that I have it. And so if I try to install the xmcd package, it
refu
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