Re: slink problems

1999-08-06 Thread goswin . brederlow
From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: > > Many other suggestions have been made to solve the problem. It is not easy. > > You have to find: > > > > - a good scheme (think of X11-only installers, without a tty), > > - implement it (i.e. modify 3000 packages' {pre,po

Re: slink problems

1999-08-05 Thread Russell Nelson
Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: > > [I'm not on debian-admintool and I hate posting on lists where I'm not.] That's why they have open archives. :) > On Thursday 5 August 1999, at 11 h 6, the keyboard of Russell Nelson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > create a hard link to their installer

Re: slink problems

1999-08-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
[I'm not on debian-admintool and I hate posting on lists where I'm not.] On Thursday 5 August 1999, at 11 h 6, the keyboard of Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > create a hard link to their installers ONLY if the installer will > never ask questions. Give that link the same name prepe

Re: slink problems

1999-08-05 Thread Russell Nelson
Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: > Many other suggestions have been made to solve the problem. It is not easy. > You have to find: > > - a good scheme (think of X11-only installers, without a tty), > - implement it (i.e. modify 3000 packages' {pre,post}{rm,inst}. Nonsense. The solution is quite

Re: slink problems

1999-08-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 4 August 1999, at 16 h 29, the keyboard of Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um, it's quite annoying to be constantly interrupted to interact > various programs during the configuration phase of a Debian install. It's the Mother of All FAQs and has been discussed (but not

slink problems

1999-08-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Um, it's quite annoying to be constantly interrupted to interact various programs during the configuration phase of a Debian install. If it's an absolute requirement for configuration scripts to be able to ask questions, then perhaps there could be two categories, ones which never ask questions an

Compiling python-1.5.2-3 on slink - problems

1999-06-22 Thread Johann Spies
I hope somebody can help me with this one: I am trying to compile the python source from potato/source and I am getting errors while compiling the dbmmodule.c. The errors seems to be related to my lib6c-dev. I have the following installed version: Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.0.7.19981211-6 So

emacs20 slink problems

1999-03-17 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hi folks, I think I am *still* getting bitten by the emacs19/emacs20 stuff. I have purged both packages using dpkg, then removed the /etc/emacs directory by hand (it was not removed by the purge), then tried a fresh emacs20 install. Error: emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs20 cp

Re: Hamm -> Slink PROBLEMS

1999-03-02 Thread Stuart Miles
On 1 March 1999 at 15:15, Ed Cogburn wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I am having problems upgrading my new box from hamm to slink. I have instal >led >> apt for hamm. I did changed my /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to >> ftp://ftp.us.debia.org/frozen main contrib non-free. I then di

Re: Hamm -> Slink PROBLEMS

1999-03-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am having problems upgrading my new box from hamm to slink. I have > installed > apt for hamm. I did changed my /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to > ftp://ftp.us.debia.org/frozen main contrib non-free. I then did an > apt-get update followed by an apt-get dis

Re: Hamm -> Slink PROBLEMS

1999-02-28 Thread Shao Zhang
It may be a bug, but I am not sure. You can fix it by using the http port. That is, change your sources.list to http://ftp.us.debian.org... hope it helps... Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _

Re: Hamm -> Slink PROBLEMS

1999-02-28 Thread wtopa
Subject: Hamm -> Slink PROBLEMS Date: Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 08:55:20PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I am having problems upgrading my new box from hamm to slink. I have > installed > apt for hamm. I did

Re: Hamm -> Slink PROBLEMS

1999-02-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 08:55:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having problems upgrading my new box from hamm to slink. I have > installed > apt for hamm. I did changed my /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to > ftp://ftp.us.debia.org/frozen main contrib non-free. I then did an > ap

Hamm -> Slink PROBLEMS

1999-02-28 Thread wax_man
I am having problems upgrading my new box from hamm to slink. I have installed apt for hamm. I did changed my /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to ftp://ftp.us.debia.org/frozen main contrib non-free. I then did an apt-get update followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade. While trying to d/l, apt ga

Re: Netscape 4.5 in slink (problems)

1998-11-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi Debian users, > I had Netscape installed. Then I upgraded it to Netscape 4.5 that is > in slink. Now, when I run netscape from xterm I got the following error > messages: > grep: /etc/netscape4/config: No such file or directory > eg

Netscape 4.5 in slink (problems)

1998-11-24 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I had Netscape installed. Then I upgraded it to Netscape 4.5 that is in slink. Now, when I run netscape from xterm I got the following error messages: grep: /etc/netscape4/config: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/netscape4/config: No such file or directory