CLISP on Debian for SPARC

Hello - I installed Debian on a SPARC IPC. I would like to install CLISP on this platform. I can't seem to find a binary for this platform - it is not on the Debian distribution for SPARC. I am trying to build a version from the source but I am running into problems during the make. 1. If some

slink and potato

Can someone provide a definition of slink? of potato? Thanks, Randy Kaplan

Minicom and LISP

Does anyone Minicom or LISP are included with the Debian distribution? In the case of LISP dselect seems to know about it, but on a couple of separate occasions of installation it did not get installed even though it was selected for installation. I am trying to get my machine in a state where

Serial Port/Modem Configuration

During installation of Debian, wvdial(conf?) tries to configure the serial ports by scanning the serial devices for a modem. I have my modem connection to serial A of a SPARC IPC. wvdial(conf?) does not find anything in its scan. Any ideas as to why this might not be working? Thanks for your he

Using dselect

I am trying to understand how to use dselect to install packages. When I start dselect and select the "select" option, the list I get looks like there are many packages that will be installed - for example, all of the required packages. Since these have already been installed (as part of the in