Re: You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)

2011-03-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 28/03/11 16:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On 2011-03-27 21:52:29 Scott Ferguson wrote: And Double-U Double-U - I "know" that is how it's supposed to be, but I've spent years (delighting in) saying "wuh" "wuh" "wuh" (as in the Magyar "w"). World Wide Web = 3 syllables. www = double-u dou

Re: You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)

2011-03-28 Thread Glenn English
On Mar 28, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > World Wide Web = 3 syllables. > www = double-u double-u double-u = 9 syllables. 3dub works -- 2 syllables, and less work required from the mouth :-) -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)

2011-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-27 21:52:29 Scott Ferguson wrote: >And Double-U Double-U - I "know" that is how it's supposed to be, but >I've spent years (delighting in) saying "wuh" "wuh" "wuh" (as in the >Magyar "w"). World Wide Web = 3 syllables. www = double-u double-u double-u = 9 syllables. Abbreviation FAIL!

Re: You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)

2011-03-28 Thread Doug
On 03/27/2011 11:25 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 03/27/11 19:52, Scott Ferguson wrote: And Double-U Double-U - I "know" that is how it's supposed to be, but I've spent years (delighting in) saying "wuh" "wuh" "wuh" (as in the Magyar "w"). How about combining all three of them into 'hexa-u"? Ma

Re: You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)

2011-03-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 03/27/11 19:52, Scott Ferguson wrote: And Double-U Double-U - I "know" that is how it's supposed to be, but I've spent years (delighting in) saying "wuh" "wuh" "wuh" (as in the Magyar "w"). How about combining all three of them into 'hexa-u"? Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)

2011-03-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/03/11 13:26, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2011 27 Mar 21:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> That's a double *slash*. The backslash (on my US "small " >> kb) is under the pipe. >> >> We know this because typewriter keyboards only had one such key and >> so Lower Left To Upper Right became the

Re: You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)(is now OOT)

2011-03-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/03/11 13:12, Ron Johnson wrote: > You touched one of my pet peeves Thanks - I assure you it was unintentional, I have now washed my hands and disinfected the keyboard. :-) > On 03/27/2011 08:35 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> Is the double backslashes a clue? >> > > That's a double *s

Re: You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)

2011-03-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 27 Mar 21:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > That's a double *slash*. The backslash (on my US "small " > kb) is under the pipe. > > We know this because typewriter keyboards only had one such key and > so Lower Left To Upper Right became the "slash" key. When IBM added > another key, tha

You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)

2011-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/27/2011 08:35 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: An apt-get update for Squeeze gives the following error message:- dpkg: syntax error in file triggers file `/var/lib/dpkg/triggers//File' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) The machine is a fairly standard KDE Squeeze

dpkg: syntax error

2011-03-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
An apt-get update for Squeeze gives the following error message:- dpkg: syntax error in file triggers file `/var/lib/dpkg/triggers//File' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) The machine is a fairly standard KDE Squeeze i386 - the update is (I believe) the last point re

Re: dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file

2006-08-08 Thread kevin bailey
Mumia W. wrote: > On 08/07/2006 11:06 AM, kevin bailey wrote: >> Mumia W. wrote: >> >>> On 08/07/2006 04:49 AM, kevin bailey wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> Preconfiguring packages ... >>>> dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim'

Re: dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file

2006-08-07 Thread Mumia W.
On 08/07/2006 11:06 AM, kevin bailey wrote: Mumia W. wrote: On 08/07/2006 04:49 AM, kevin bailey wrote: [...] Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Ack! Something bad hap

Re: dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file

2006-08-07 Thread kevin bailey
Mumia W. wrote: > On 08/07/2006 04:49 AM, kevin bailey wrote: >> [...] >> Preconfiguring packages ... >> dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) >> Ack! Something

Re: dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file

2006-08-07 Thread Mumia W.
On 08/07/2006 04:49 AM, kevin bailey wrote: [...] Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: Someh

Re: dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file

2006-08-07 Thread kevin bailey
ttp://security.debian.org stable/updates/main gnupg 1.4.1-1.sarge5 >> [1909kB] >> Get:2 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main dhcp-client >> 2.0pl5-19.1sarge2 [102kB] >> Fetched 2011kB in 17s (117kB/s) >> Preconfiguring packages ... >> dpkg: syntax error: un

Re: dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file

2006-08-04 Thread Mumia W.
disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main gnupg 1.4.1-1.sarge5 [1909kB] Get:2 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main dhcp-client 2.0pl5-19.1sarge2 [102kB] Fetched 2011kB in 17s (117kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: s

dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file

2006-08-04 Thread kevin bailey
e? [Y/n] Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main gnupg 1.4.1-1.sarge5 [1909kB] Get:2 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main dhcp-client 2.0pl5-19.1sarge2 [102kB] Fetched 2011kB in 17s (117kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exi