Re: List for missing packages

1998-08-05 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 08:47:50PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > Oh, and I think there's nothing wrong with using gmp2 or slang0.99.38; > > they can coexist happily. > > Because, we should break _now_ as much as possible! I have no slang0.99 > installed and what happens: lynx depends on it! T

Re: List for missing packages

1998-08-05 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> Oh, and I think there's nothing wrong with using gmp2 or slang0.99.38; > they can coexist happily. Because, we should break _now_ as much as possible! I have no slang0.99 installed and what happens: lynx depends on it! This is bad. Second reason is: slang0 does not have a real *so version numbe

Re: List for missing packages

1998-08-05 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 07:33:45PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > menu I dunno - I have a broken g++ right now apparently. Hartmut, > > could you PLEASE get egcs-ss compiled, or else tell someone to do it? > > > 1. i compile it since the last three or four days!! (five or

Re: List for missing packages

1998-08-05 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> menu I dunno - I have a broken g++ right now apparently. Hartmut, > could you PLEASE get egcs-ss compiled, or else tell someone to do it? 1. i compile it since the last three or four days!! (five or sixs a day) 2. the rules script is very very buggy!! 3. your friendliness

Re: tarball and possibly missing devs.

1998-08-05 Thread Sven
> > The console is opened BEFORE the root partition is mounted. That's a > kernel problem. the same kernel boots fine under my other glibc1.99 partition. i will check the exact message and tell you, but it could entirely be that this is an kenrel problem, since new kernel don't work for me (ye

Re: tarball and possibly missing devs.

1998-08-05 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 02:31:49PM +0200, LUTHER Sven wrote: > > > We have now a working dpkg. So normal install with dpkg -i or with > > dselect. > > > Same old problem, for dpkg t owork, you need a working glibc2 root > partition, which i don't have. That's why i so much in need of a tarball, >

Re: List for missing packages

1998-08-05 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 01:49:23PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > Hi, > > here is a list for packages that makes trouble. Some more, some less. > Very important of these are: > > menu, lynx, rxvt, fakeroot and strace.(rxvt because xterm fails) lynx going up now; xterm work s fine here (it w

RFI What Macintosh platforms are supported.

1998-08-05 Thread Harris Tom
Sorry for the intrusion. I am curious as to what the Macintosh hardware requirements are to use Debian Linux? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: tarball and possibly missing devs.

1998-08-05 Thread LUTHER Sven
> > yesterday i tried to install debian/slink/ppc on my linux/apus system. > > like recommended i did a > > for i in *.deb do ar -x $i; tar xzvf data.tar.gz; done > > and after that i made some configuration. > > We have now a working dpkg. So normal install with dpkg -i or with > dselect. > Sam

Re: tarball and possibly missing devs.

1998-08-05 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> yesterday i tried to install debian/slink/ppc on my linux/apus system. > like recommended i did a > for i in *.deb do ar -x $i; tar xzvf data.tar.gz; done > and after that i made some configuration. We have now a working dpkg. So normal install with dpkg -i or with dselect. > i tried booting in

List for missing packages

1998-08-05 Thread Hartmut Koptein
Hi, here is a list for packages that makes trouble. Some more, some less. Very important of these are: menu, lynx, rxvt, fakeroot and strace.(rxvt because xterm fails) eject and setcd needs a term in the form of: if linux < 2.1 then include else include endif Please let me kno

tarball and possibly missing devs.

1998-08-05 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... yesterday i tried to install debian/slink/ppc on my linux/apus system. like recommended i did a for i in *.deb do ar -x $i; tar xzvf data.tar.gz; done and after that i made some configuration. i tried booting in this partition and was not able to open a fbdev to put the console on it,