Re: problem installing dhelp

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:02:55PM -0500, John Patton wrote: > When trying to install dhelp, I get the following weird message: > > dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles Using testing, right? The version in testing is utterly broken; unstable's is much better, although beware bug #114

problem installing dhelp

2001-10-09 Thread John Patton
When trying to install dhelp, I get the following weird message: dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles Even if I purge dhelp and then reinstall (so that /var/lib/dhelp is deleted) it still happens. Yes, I'm running as root; no, the immutable bit is not set; and no, I'm not currently r