Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:49:13PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >>>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>>On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > >&g

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: >>>> I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Deb

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian distribution. Ok. Unless someone

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: >>>I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian >>>distribution. >> >>O

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: >> I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian >> distribution. > > Ok. Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it will

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Igor Peshansky
First off, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. Secondly, attaching a BMP file to show the output of a text-only program is pretty wasteful (not to mention bothersome to open). More below. Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 7:17 PM Subject: Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root > St

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: >I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian >distribution. Ok. Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it will be removed from the distribution in a few days

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Dave
Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > The output of the program (which is dselect) I am having trouble with is > in the attached file. > How do I find out which file has read-only access? > > I am making the assumption that if a program is in the cygwin > distribution, the cygwin co

RE: Running dselect

2006-06-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 20 June 2006 05:44, Wynfield Henman wrote: > I downloaded, > > ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gdb/snapshots/branch/gdb-6.4.91.20060615.tar.bz2 > > and built it successfully in the cygwin environment and with cygwin tools. And so you made a post called "Running deselect" because why

Re: Running dselect

2006-06-19 Thread Wynfield Henman
I downloaded, ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gdb/snapshots/branch/gdb-6.4.91.20060615.tar.bz2 and built it successfully in the cygwin environment and with cygwin tools. But, the resulting binary seems to have bugs in it either something to do with the termainal or what I'm not sure as it just cra

Re: Running dselect

2006-06-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > I am trying to run dselect. > When I try to update my list of available packages I get > > dselect: requested operation requires superuser privilege > > How do I give myself superuser privilege? The answer is the same as it was the last time yo

Running dselect

2006-06-19 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi There, I am trying to run dselect. When I try to update my list of available packages I get dselect: requested operation requires superuser privilege How do I give myself superuser privilege? Thanks in advance. Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: dselect

2006-01-13 Thread Brian Dessent
STEPHEN GRANT BROWN wrote: > I am sorry if this question has already been answered. > When I run dselect in an cygwin bash shell, I get the following message > > read-only access: only preview of selections is available. > > Is this covered in the documentation? If not, how