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. :)
>
> 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.
This sounds like the perl problem: the current version of perl installs
without a necessary sym link. The simple solution is to make this link.
Try:
ls -s /usr/bin/perl /bin/perl
The install should proceed properly.
>
> 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?
>
Because of a more restictive distribution license, I was force to put
pine, imapd, and pico into the non-free section. You should be able to
find them there.
> And finally, I seem to have lost the XF86Config program... I recognized it
> when I was configuring one of the X11 packages, but I didn't have time to
> set it up properly, so I skipped it. I found XF86Config somewhere in
> /etc/<something> but it was just a symlink to a file that didn't exsist. Is
> XF86Config in one of the packages, or do I have to run a configuration
> script again? (If so, which one?) Thanks for any help given on the above.
> ---
My memory says that when you install the x stuff (xbase I think) you are
walked through a question and answer session that results in a properly
configured system. (I believe you must install at least the server package
you will need before you can install the base packages. Don't forget the
fonts.)
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Hope this helps,
Dwarf
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