Re: diald stuck in apt cache for a week now

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Heldebrant
You're welcome. I'm glad I can contribute to the debian community at least a small part of the fun I get from playing/working with linux. I should have been cruising this list a year ago, I just started this month. --mike On 09 Aug 2001 17:26:45 +0100, P Kirk wrote: > Worked. Thank you, Michae

Re: diald stuck in apt cache for a week now

2001-08-09 Thread P Kirk
Worked. Thank you, Michael. -- Patrick "sig free and joyful"" Kirk GSM: +44 7876 560 646 ICQ: 42219699

Re: diald stuck in apt cache for a week now

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Heldebrant
I had this problem as well. Just apt-get install diald/stable that should fix it. The package maintainer knows about this bug and it's been dormant forever as last I checked. --mike On 09 Aug 2001 14:24:03 +0100, P Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > a week or so ago I tried installing diald and it faile

Re: diald stuck in apt cache for a week now

2001-08-09 Thread P Kirk
#! On Thu, Aug 09, 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > >The problem isn't that the deb is in your apt cache, but rather that >it is partially installed. apt sees that there is a partially installed >package and wants to complete the installation (which fails). > >Have you tried removing it? (apt-get r

Re: diald stuck in apt cache for a week now

2001-08-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:24:03PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > a week or so ago I tried installing diald and it failed. Since then it > keeps failing to get installed. Does andone know how to flush it out of > the cash and thus allow me to download a more stable version? The problem isn't that the de