Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.

2000-01-12 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Never mind my previous email... I finally figured out to run dpkg-reconfig on debconfig with --priority=low to reset the priority! But after doing that I STILL get an error installing lynx! Tried to apt-get --reinstall install lynx Same error: subprocess post-installation script returned err

Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.

2000-01-12 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Just tried this. Catch 22. It didn't work because the package wasn't fully installed! I tried to purge lynx but it complains that /usr/lib/mine/packages/lynx is a ro file system. I tired to manually delete this file (root has rw permission) but rm complains that it can't unlink the file. Is

Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.

2000-01-12 Thread Cesar Mendoza
Hi, man dpkg-reconfigure and read the option --priority Bye Cesar Mendoza http://www.kitiara.org On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > So how do I reset the debconf priority after having > installed the system? I don't see an appropreate > config file in /etc. > > >Hi, > > > >I got tha

Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.

2000-01-12 Thread Kenneth Scharf
So how do I reset the debconf priority after having installed the system? I don't see an appropreate config file in /etc. >Hi, > >I got that error and found that there is a problem >between debconf and >the >lynx package. When the debconf priority is set to >high, the >installation >script breaks

Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.

2000-01-12 Thread Joey Hess
Josip Rodin wrote: > That's an annoying but in a way useful feature of debconf, to intercept all > text sent to stdout and try to interpret it as debconf code. I encountered a > similar problem with xinetd and after JoeyH explained it to me, fixed it by > adding a bunch of >&2 to all sorts of comma

Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.

2000-01-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:04:30PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Guess I'm a tester. debian-testing or debian-boot mailing lists might be more appropriate. > Almost every went well...except lynx. > > .. dpkg error processing lynx > subproc post - install script returned error exit status

Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.

2000-01-11 Thread Cesar Mendoza
Hi, I got that error and found that there is a problem between debconf and the lynx package. When the debconf priority is set to high, the installation script breaks. Set debconf priority to low, answer the installation questions and everything should be allright. Bye Cesar Mendoza http://www.ki