This is a very interesting message. Thanks to both of you. Unfortunately, this is still quite obscure for me, as I am definitely a newbie (forced to upgrade from slink to potato to make my laptop work).
How can I install a library (by hand)? Bye Alessandro P.S. non-technical intriguing question: why is potato called 'potato'? On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Sven Esbjerg wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 10:24:03PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so (No such file > > or directory), skipping > > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink > > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomnithread.so.2 is not a symlink > > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomniORB2.so.6 is not a symlink > > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomniLC.so.2 is not a symlink > > > > What do they mean? > > I had somewhat they the same error. I stopped the installation and installed > theese libs by hand and then it worked. > > > dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc! > > > > warning: error occured during execution of /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse > > -a at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 241. > > > > (For example, it occurred right after the line > > "Installing new version of config file /etc/imlib/imrc ...".) > > Will you file the bug? (I got the same error over and over). > > > - The most annoying part was the following error, which stopped the > > install: > > > > install/dpkg-dev: Byte-compiling for emacs20 > > /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common-install: > > cd: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg-dev: No such file or directory > > emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ > > emacsen-common-install emacs20 failed at > > /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28. > > dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 > > Somewhere along from slink to potatto the dir-structure for Emacs got changed > but the install-script does noet reflect this. I fixed the problem by moving > the missing files/dirs from the old place to the new place. I shure hope this > is fixed when potato is released - it's not vere easy to figure these things > out if one is a newbee. > > Still, fewer errors ocurred than I had expected. > -- > Sven Esbjerg > http://www.dina.dk/~joker > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
