Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

2004-08-27 Thread Loki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Joris Huizer wrote: > As far as I saw you didn't get the problem fixed yet so maybe you don't > mind me suggesting this one... > tar is broken; maybe you should try and compile tar from source (without > using the malfunctioning a

Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

2004-08-27 Thread Carl Fink
If memory serves, debs are actually ar archives. You might make sure that there's a functioning GNU ar on your system. (I have no idea whether Debian actually uses ar or its own copy of the ar code, actually.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading htt

Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

2004-08-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Scarletdown wrote: I need some help here. Suddenly, I can no longer install anything via apt-get, segfaults out the wazoo. Here is the output from my attempt to install the latest k3b... apt-get install k3b Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packag

Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

2004-08-26 Thread Scarletdown
On Thursday 26 August 2004 21:24, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:09:12PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > > On Thursday 26 August 2004 20:00, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > > > locate *.deb > > > > > > Take the first one you see, and: > > c > Take the first you you see that still exists, and:

Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

2004-08-26 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:09:12PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 20:00, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > > locate *.deb > > > > Take the first one you see, and: c Take the first you you see that still exists, and: . ... > Here's what I got: > > dpkg-deb: failed to read archive `/roo

Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

2004-08-26 Thread Scarletdown
On Thursday 26 August 2004 20:00, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > Ok, try: > > mkdir foox > cd foox > catchsegv tar -xf ../foo.tar > > If you still don't see anything... > > locate *.deb > > Take the first one you see, and: > > cd > mkdir debx > cd debx > catchsegv dpkg-deb -x > /home/stefan/avifile-player_

Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

2004-08-26 Thread ACP
Scarletdown wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 19:25, Stefan O'Rear wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:50:08PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: >> > I need some help here. Suddenly, I can no longer install anything >> > via apt-get, segfaults out the wazoo. >> > >> > Here is the output from my attemp

Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

2004-08-26 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 07:43:17PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 19:25, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > > catchsegv tar -cf foo.tar .bashrc > I saw nothing at all. Good! Ok, try: mkdir foox cd foox catchsegv tar -xf ../foo.tar If you still don't see anything... locate *.deb Ta

Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

2004-08-26 Thread Scarletdown
On Thursday 26 August 2004 19:25, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:50:08PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > > I need some help here. Suddenly, I can no longer install anything > > via apt-get, segfaults out the wazoo. > > > > Here is the output from my attempt to install the latest k3b

Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

2004-08-26 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:50:08PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > I need some help here. Suddenly, I can no longer install anything via > apt-get, segfaults out the wazoo. > > Here is the output from my attempt to install the latest k3b... > #SNIP# > > I get similar errors no matter what I try to

apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

2004-08-26 Thread Scarletdown
I need some help here. Suddenly, I can no longer install anything via apt-get, segfaults out the wazoo. Here is the output from my attempt to install the latest k3b... apt-get install k3b Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be install