Re: Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-25 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 24 May 1998 10:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Darren Benham writes: > > I accidentally overwrote /bin/more (using > instead of |), and > dselect won't let me reinstall the package that contains it > (util-linux) because it is already installed. I can't uninstall it > because it is a required package.

Re: Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 10:22:15AM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: > Unless you don't like "less" for some reason, I'd just copy /usr/bin/less > ontop > of /bin/more and use less, instead. Nononononono... more works on ANY terminal. less does not. pgpK1l8xdoAvT.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-24 Thread Darren Benham
Unless you don't like "less" for some reason, I'd just copy /usr/bin/less ontop of /bin/more and use less, instead. On 24-May-98 Jim Rogers wrote: > I accidentally overwrote /bin/more (using > instead of |), and dselect won't > let me reinstall the package that contains it (util-linux) because it

Re: Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-24 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Adam Heath wrote: > > First, fix your mailer so it wraps lines at about 75. > > On Sun, 24 May 1998, Jim Rogers wrote: > > > I accidentally overwrote /bin/more (using > instead of |), and dselect > > won't let me reinstall the package that contains it (util-linux) becaus

Re: Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-24 Thread Adam Heath
First, fix your mailer so it wraps lines at about 75. On Sun, 24 May 1998, Jim Rogers wrote: > I accidentally overwrote /bin/more (using > instead of |), and dselect won't > let me reinstall the package that contains it (util-linux) because it is > already installed. I can't uninstall it becau