On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:01:30PM +0000, Ketil Froyn wrote: > I'm a beginner with debian, but not with linux. I installed debian from > sarge-i386-netinst.iso dated 3 March. The install was fine (including > installation of X and some other stuff), but now it seems I am unable to > install software. I tried a couple of packages, and got the same > problems. Here are the symptoms I see: > > o "apt-get upgrade" worked fine > o "apt-get install gaim" downloaded packages, but then complained that > a subprocess was killed unexpectedly > o "dpkg -i gaim-<version>.deb" says: Killed
That suggests to me that you're out of memory. Check your system logs for out-of-memory killer messages. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
