On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 01:52:32PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > I just installed using a pretty heavy package list.
Congratulations! > I didn't use the installer floppy image, as I don't have a mac, so no > macos to boot from :) I untarred the base2_1.tar.gz, and rebooted and > went from there. The way I usually do it... > Anyway, some issues I noticed: > while configuring many packages that compiled .el (emacs lisp I assume?) > files into bytecode there were many warnings. emacs seems to be working > ok, so I don't know if this is important... Platform independent. I got this on a PC yesterday. > lynx depends on slang 0.99.38 (or something like that)...the only > available slang package I found was 1.2...can something be done about > this? Should I try and recompile the lynx .deb? I'll do it, shortly. Today, maybe... > When trying to build the ssh .deb, I came across an error in ./configure > complaining about the lack of the xauth binary. It refuses to enable X > support in ssh without this...is this supposed to be in xbase or > elsewhere? It's in xbase-clients most likely. Get it from http://master.debian.org/~dan; I'm reluctant to put this in the archive because of how heavily it's patched. Dan
