On Sun, Nov 16, 1997 at 05:50:46AM +0000, Bill Leach wrote: > Receiving error messages such as the following: > Linux# dpkg --configure fvwm2 > dpkg: error processing fvwm2 (--configure): > package fvwm2 is not ready for configuration > cannot configure (current status `installed') > Errors were encountered while processing: > fvwm2 > Linux# > > are pretty much useless. This sort of error message reminds > me of Red Hat's RPM! > > What causes this sort of information free error message? > Does dpkg honor the 'hold' status in the status file when it > is placed there by dselect (that is when dpkg is run manually from the > command line)?
The error message is less than friendly but there is no mention of hold status; simply, it says that fvwm2 is not ready for configuration because it is already installed. installed implies configured. That is, the package needs no further processing by dpkg, and you can't configure a package that has already been configured (or not through dpkg at least). As I understand it, hold means do not upgrade. dselect will tell tell dpkg to ignore upgrades to the package, and I guess dpkg-ftp would also ignore them. But "dpkg -i <file.deb>" will do it anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [***** ] 59% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
