Re: package dependancies

1999-09-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Michael G Schwern wrote: > I was told by a Debian developer (x86 side) that untarring the base > tarball into a partition is not the proper way to install Depends on which tarball you use I guess.. For powerpc you probably had a tarball that was a snapshot of an old basesystem. Generall

Re: package dependancies

1999-09-07 Thread Andreas Tobler
Josh Huber wrote: > > Andreas Tobler writes: > > here I sit too. I don't come further. > > I have the CD snapshot from August (from a berlin-guy). I can't install > > anything due to this not configured libc6. > > > > Any help yould be great > Well, I haven't tried it yet, but I was reminded by

Re: package dependancies

1999-09-07 Thread Josh Huber
Andreas Tobler writes: > here I sit too. I don't come further. > I have the CD snapshot from August (from a berlin-guy). I can't install > anything due to this not configured libc6. > > Any help yould be great Well, I haven't tried it yet, but I was reminded by the other response to my original e

Re: package dependancies

1999-09-07 Thread Andreas Tobler
Hi, Josh Huber wrote: [snip] > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst: /usr/sbin/update-rc.d: No such file or > directory > dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 [snip] here I sit too. I don't come further. I have the CD snaps

Re: package dependancies

1999-09-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 07:37:41PM -0400, Josh Huber wrote: > I'm doing a fresh installation of debian, to clean up my system and try and > get rid of some lingering package bugs, and I'm running into a problem early > on. > > I untarred base2_2.tgz onto a partition, rebooted, chose runlevel S t

package dependancies

1999-09-06 Thread Josh Huber
I'm doing a fresh installation of debian, to clean up my system and try and get rid of some lingering package bugs, and I'm running into a problem early on. I untarred base2_2.tgz onto a partition, rebooted, chose runlevel S to configure my system: rm /sbin/unconfigured.sh add /etc/init.d/networ