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

diald stuck in apt cache for a week now

2001-08-09 Thread P Kirk
Hi all, 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? I'm running woody. Details of a recent attempt are below. enterprise:/home/patr