I've finally succeeded in getting a working potato box by installing slink base system (using cdrom), but it took 3 tries. I've done this before (the machine I'm using to write this was installed this way), but never had this much trouble.
What I discovered was that changing sources.list to point to potato
and doing 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade
perl from 5.004 to 5.005. This causes several of the installation and
post-installation scripts to fail, the first being libncurses4. (Later
failures /may/ have been due to libncurses4 not being configured. I'm
not sure.)
My fix was to use dselect to select perl 5.005 for installation. This
worked.
Has anyone had a similar experience? Is this a bug? If it is a bug,
against what?
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Regards,
Steve
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