The newbie again...

1998-11-11 Thread The Cookie Man
Hey yall I'm going out of town and I don't want to come home to 500 emails! So I am unsubscribing to the list so if you are replying to my previous message please send i t directly to me. Thanx ___ You don't need to buy Internet acces

Re: Arrgh, its the newbie again...

1997-12-22 Thread Mike Orr
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Rick wrote: > > > dpkg -i /dos-d/linux/packages/the_name_of_file.deb > > Why don't you move them into /tmp? Careful, /tmp gets wiped at reboot. So if you want to make sure the files stay around till you're done with them, keep them o

Re: Arrgh, its the newbie again...

1997-12-17 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Rick wrote: > dpkg -i /dos-d/linux/packages/the_name_of_file.deb Why don't you move them into /tmp? > all i get is error messages, when logged on as root messages about > unexpected eof, Sounds like you're .deb file may have gotten truncated when you downloaded it. Try jus

Arrgh, its the newbie again...

1997-12-17 Thread Rick
Hi all, I am having real problems installing packages, i decided that the man pages would be a good place to start, so i downloaded - groff thingy, a lib required by groff, man-db, and manpages.deb i am trying to install them from a mounted msdos partition using dpkg dpkg -i /dos-d/linux/packages