Re: dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP

1996-08-03 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
[To those who will get this message twice, my apologies; nonetheless, I think this is worth bringing to the attention of the developers.] Hi Ricardo -- You said: > I've actually tried running dselect with ftp, but it didn't work. > It looks like my version of perl may have some problems as can b

Re: dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP

1996-08-03 Thread Andy Guy
Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I grabbed and installed dpkg-ftp. But I see no mention of any ftp usage > when I run dpkg --help. Is there supposed to be a separate binary called > dpkg-ftp? Because I can't find any... > > I'm trying to download the latest Debian distribution via

Re: dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP

1996-08-03 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Thanks! I've actually tried running dselect with ftp, but it didn't work. It looks like my version of perl may have some problems as can be seen in the error messages below. Since I'm still using Debian-0.93 and am trying to upgrade, I'm not sure how to upgrade perl because all the packages in

Re: dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP

1996-08-02 Thread Lazaro . Salem
ng NFS the whole thing is also viable (check the mirrors page). good luck! __ Reply Separator _ Subject: dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:02.08.96 21:36 Hi guys, I grabbed and inst

Re: dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP

1996-08-02 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Ricardo> Hi guys, I grabbed and installed dpkg-ftp. But I see no mention Ricardo> of any ftp usage when I run dpkg --help. Is there supposed to be Ricardo> a separate binary called dpkg-ftp? Because I can't find any... It is meant to be used from within _dselect_. It gives you a new line

Re: dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP

1996-08-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > Hi guys, > > I grabbed and installed dpkg-ftp. But I see no mention of any ftp usage > when I run dpkg --help. Is there supposed to be a separate binary called > dpkg-ftp? Because I can't find any... No dpkg-ftp provides a 'ftp' method for dselect.

dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP

1996-08-02 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi guys, I grabbed and installed dpkg-ftp. But I see no mention of any ftp usage when I run dpkg --help. Is there supposed to be a separate binary called dpkg-ftp? Because I can't find any... I'm trying to download the latest Debian distribution via FTP, but I've had problems both with ncftp a