tasksel says:NO TASK PACKAGES FOUND ON THIS SYSTEM.DID YOU UPDATE YOUR AVAILABLE FILE?

2000-10-26 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
I`m running 2.2 on my portable BAD-ASS-COMPAQ LTE 5150, which dosent boot of the cdrom, or support hotswaping the floppy and cdrom. So I`ve installed the base from floppy, and the a whole lot of packages by hand from the cdrom. I have X up and running. But I`m fed up installing by hand, and I would

tasksel says:NO TASK PACKAGES FOUND ON THIS SYSTEM.DID YOU UPDATE YOUR AVAILABLE FILE?

2000-10-26 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
I`m running 2.2 on my portable BAD-ASS-COMPAQ LTE 5150, which dosent boot of the cdrom, or support hotswaping the floppy and cdrom. So I`ve installed the base from floppy, and the a whole lot of packages by hand from the cdrom. I have X up and running. But I`m fed up installing by hand, and I would

Re: dselect/dpkg -- status/available file problems

1997-08-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Looks like your status file has been corrupted. First, copy the status file to a safe place (% cp -a /var/lib/dpkg/status ~/.) Then look for line 12376 (using your favourite editor). I don't use quota, so I can't help with the spcifics; but what has happened is that some thing that

dselect/dpkg -- status/available file problems

1997-08-26 Thread Paul Miller
I keep getting errors like this (with other packages too) dselect: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 12376 package `quota': field name `4cb6de6e2e2f1350b0410cf1e47ff05b' must be followed by colon when I use dselect... when this happens, I usaully copy the backup file and it w

Re: available file

1997-06-22 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997 14:59:10 CDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > you don't need the available file. The status of your system is in status. > >Just remove the available file, and fire up dselect. > thanx for the tip. > But I recieved the following error(s) > When I did as yo

Re: available file

1997-06-22 Thread Peter . Yarych . gandolph
you don't need the available file. The status of your system is in status. >Just remove the available file, and fire up dselect. > >Phil. > > Hi Phil, thanx for the tip. But I recieved the following error(s) When I did as you suggested. I really need a solution as at the pres

Re: available file

1997-06-22 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997 10:07:07 CDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I seem to have a "slight" problem. > I was upgrading the available list. > When I my computer, locked up and I had reset. > Anyway the problem is now that I can't do anything with the available file, > its

available file

1997-06-22 Thread Gandolph . gandolph
Hello: Fellow Debian users I seem to have a "slight" problem. I was upgrading the available list. When I my computer, locked up and I had reset. Anyway the problem is now that I can't do anything with the available file, its only about half there I tried to rename the avail

Re: How to rebuild "available" file ?

1997-02-18 Thread Paul Rightley
age_name" returns the folowing erro: >> >> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 13771 >> package `zlib1': >> empty value for version >> >> What can I do to rebuild this file correctly ? > >Just choose [U]pdate in th