Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> You have the package perl, version 5.004-blah installed, not the
> package perl5 (which is actually only a virtual package, provided by
> the various flavours of the perl-5.00x packages.
>
> Why do I need perl5 again.. Ah, yes convert-metadata.db needs it.
>
> Reorga
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> the offending file, but then it errored out saying that gmc
John> depended on "perl5" and that "perl5" was not installed. What is
John> that all about. It is a stable slink system with perl5.00404
John> installed in /usr/bin with symlinks in
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
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> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> John> The problem seems to be this one file, which apparently should
> John> be in mc-common (which it is not) and not in either of the other
> John> packages.
>
> No, it should only be in the gmc package, as th
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> The problem seems to be this one file, which apparently should
John> be in mc-common (which it is not) and not in either of the other
John> packages.
No, it should only be in the gmc package, as the convert-metadata.db
script is also only i
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
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> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> John> (Reading database ... 78011 files and directories currently installed.)
> John> Unpacking gmc (from gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb) ...
> John> dpkg: error processing gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb (--install):
> John> tryin
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> (Reading database ... 78011 files and directories currently installed.)
John> Unpacking gmc (from gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb) ...
John> dpkg: error processing gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb (--install):
John> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/conve
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> As you can guess I have never tried to recompile any debian
John> stuff from the sources so I need a little hand holding here.
No prob.
$ ls
mc_4.5.42-3.diff.gz mc_4.5.42-3.dsc mc_4.5.42.orig.tar.gz
$ dpkg-source -x mc_4.5.42-3.dsc
dpkg
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
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> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> John> Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc
> John> from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct??
>
> Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you
>
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
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> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> John> Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc
> John> from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct??
>
> Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you
>
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc
John> from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct??
Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you
can also recompile the package, instead of
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
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> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> John> Depends: mc-common (= 4.5.40-2.slink.0), libc6, libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0),
> John> slang1 (<< 1.3), slang1 (>> 1.2.2-0)
>
> John> This has me really perplexed. I can find no reason why the mouse
> John> is not
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> Depends: mc-common (= 4.5.40-2.slink.0), libc6, libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0),
John> slang1 (<< 1.3), slang1 (>> 1.2.2-0)
John> This has me really perplexed. I can find no reason why the mouse
John> is not working.
It does not depend on libgpmg1.
"Eric G . Miller" wrote:
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> I believe icewm-gnome "knows" when it's running under gnome session
> management and automatically hides the taskbar. It's assumed that you'd
> be using "panel". You can disable this behaviour in
> ~/.icewm/preferences but when I did so, the side effects were
> undes
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> Does dpkg -s mc show a dependancy on libgpm* ?
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output from dpkg -s mc:
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 667
Maintainer: Michael Bramer & Martin Bialasinski
<[E
I believe icewm-gnome "knows" when it's running under gnome session
management and automatically hides the taskbar. It's assumed that you'd
be using "panel". You can disable this behaviour in
~/.icewm/preferences but when I did so, the side effects were
undesirable. Personally, when I use IceWM
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> 1. It uninstalled my console version of Midnight Commander. I
John> reinstalled it again using apt and now my mouse will not work in
John> mc.
Does dpkg -s mc show a dependancy on libgpm* ?
John> 2. The taskbar in icewm-gnome (my personal
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