On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Andy Heroff wrote: > Okay, first off, thank you much for helping me out with the dselect probs I > was having. Mounting my D drive before running dselect worked wonders. :)
Hear, hear, Ian! > Now, while configuring stuff, I ran into about 4 packages, including > kernal-image-2.0.0-0, that complained that while running --configure or > whatever, that it couldn't find a directory or file. I included the latter > because it said in the package selection option that it was required. Is > this true? And is there any reason in particular that dpkg is having > problems finding the right directories? I know I wasn't very descriptve of > the problem, but as none of the packages are that important to me to get > installed (except for kernal-image?) I didn't write down every single > message thrown at me. Just guessing wildly, make sure you have /bin/perl as a symlink pointing to /usr/bin/perl... It's a known problem with the Perl package in 1.1. There should be a new perl package in 1.1-fixes fixing this. Or you can just make the symlink yourself.(If you want more than wild guesses, you really must provide more info.) > Next, I'm curious if the editor Pico is anywhere in the Debian distribution. > I use it frequently at school, and have found it fast and convenient. If > it's not anywhere in the distribution, is anyone currently working on it? There is a pico package. But version 3.93 is in non-free. > And finally, I seem to have lost the XF86Config program... I recognized it [snip] Can't help you here, I don't use XFree86. Christian
