install script problem

1998-11-05 Thread Tim Thomas
I'm trying to get the Excite Search installed and run into the following error. Is anyone bored enough to take a look at the install script and see what's up ? Script at: http://www.xinu.org/crud/ starting installation. This may take a few seconds... tar: perl: Not found in archive tar: Error e

Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)

1997-06-21 Thread John M. Rulnick
Thank you, Christian. Yes, man-db's unspecified dependency on perl appears to be the problem. And so it seems, as BG Lim pointed out (thank you), that this is a small packaging bug. Thanks, folks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)

1997-06-20 Thread BG Lim
The problem is that the script needs Long.pm, which (I think), is a Perl script. Install Perl from interpreters and it should be fine. I think this is a bug, because perl is big and not many people esp newbies want it or need it, just to install man, which shoudl be the first thing any newbie inst

Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)

1997-06-20 Thread Christian Meder
On Jun 19, John M. Rulnick wrote > Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at > /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. Hi, did you install perl ? Or did you stick with the perl which comes with the installation disks and didn't install the rest of perl ? I have dpkg -s

man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)

1997-06-19 Thread John M. Rulnick
Summary of problem: -- Installation of the current (bo/1.3) "man" package fails. In particular, with a fresh install of Debian 1.3, both dpkg -i man-db_2.3.10-38.deb and dpkg -i man-db_2.3.10-39.deb yield failed configuration due to failure of /usr/sbin/chmanconfig. Proble