Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> You have the package perl, version 5.004-blah installed, not the
> package perl5 (which is actually only a virtual package, provided by
> the various flavours of the perl-5.00x packages.
>
> Why do I need perl5 again.. Ah, yes convert-metadata.db needs it.
>
> Reorga
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> the offending file, but then it errored out saying that gmc
John> depended on "perl5" and that "perl5" was not installed. What is
John> that all about. It is a stable slink system with perl5.00404
John> installed in /usr/bin with symlinks in
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
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> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> John> The problem seems to be this one file, which apparently should
> John> be in mc-common (which it is not) and not in either of the other
> John> packages.
>
> No, it should only be in the gmc package, as th
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> The problem seems to be this one file, which apparently should
John> be in mc-common (which it is not) and not in either of the other
John> packages.
No, it should only be in the gmc package, as the convert-metadata.db
script is also only i
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
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> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> John> (Reading database ... 78011 files and directories currently installed.)
> John> Unpacking gmc (from gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb) ...
> John> dpkg: error processing gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb (--install):
> John> tryin
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> (Reading database ... 78011 files and directories currently installed.)
John> Unpacking gmc (from gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb) ...
John> dpkg: error processing gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb (--install):
John> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/conve
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> As you can guess I have never tried to recompile any debian
John> stuff from the sources so I need a little hand holding here.
No prob.
$ ls
mc_4.5.42-3.diff.gz mc_4.5.42-3.dsc mc_4.5.42.orig.tar.gz
$ dpkg-source -x mc_4.5.42-3.dsc
dpkg
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
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> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> John> Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc
> John> from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct??
>
> Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you
>
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
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> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> John> Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc
> John> from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct??
>
> Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you
>
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc
John> from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct??
Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you
can also recompile the package, instead of
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
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> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> John> Depends: mc-common (= 4.5.40-2.slink.0), libc6, libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0),
> John> slang1 (<< 1.3), slang1 (>> 1.2.2-0)
>
> John> This has me really perplexed. I can find no reason why the mouse
> John> is not
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> Depends: mc-common (= 4.5.40-2.slink.0), libc6, libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0),
John> slang1 (<< 1.3), slang1 (>> 1.2.2-0)
John> This has me really perplexed. I can find no reason why the mouse
John> is not working.
It does not depend on libgpmg1.
"Eric G . Miller" wrote:
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> I believe icewm-gnome "knows" when it's running under gnome session
> management and automatically hides the taskbar. It's assumed that you'd
> be using "panel". You can disable this behaviour in
> ~/.icewm/preferences but when I did so, the side effects were
> undes
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> Does dpkg -s mc show a dependancy on libgpm* ?
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output from dpkg -s mc:
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 667
Maintainer: Michael Bramer & Martin Bialasinski
<[E
I believe icewm-gnome "knows" when it's running under gnome session
management and automatically hides the taskbar. It's assumed that you'd
be using "panel". You can disable this behaviour in
~/.icewm/preferences but when I did so, the side effects were
undesirable. Personally, when I use IceWM
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> 1. It uninstalled my console version of Midnight Commander. I
John> reinstalled it again using apt and now my mouse will not work in
John> mc.
Does dpkg -s mc show a dependancy on libgpm* ?
John> 2. The taskbar in icewm-gnome (my personal
I recently upgraded fron the standard Slink installation to the October
Gnome version of all of the Gnome apps. Two wierd things happened.
1. It uninstalled my console version of Midnight Commander. I
reinstalled it again using apt and now my mouse will not work in mc.
2. The taskbar in icewm-gnom
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