Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-12-02 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
This is a very interesting message. Thanks to both of you. Unfortunately, this is still quite obscure for me, as I am definitely a newbie (forced to upgrade from slink to potato to make my laptop work). How can I install a library (by hand)? Bye Alessandro P.S. non-technical intriguing question

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Dan Christensen
Graham Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I went that path also (dist-upgrade to get potato) and had some of the > same problems. > > The most serious for me was that my pcmcia modem card stopped working > somewhere along the way. I also have had this problem. One thing that makes my mode

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 10:24:03PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so (No such file > or directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomnithread.so.2

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Dan Christensen wrote: > o Does potato contain all of the Y2K upgrades in slink and a half? > And all current security updates? Yes. > - Throughout the upgrade I got the following message: > > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.004/Term/Re

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Graham Williams
Hi Dan, I went that path also (dist-upgrade to get potato) and had some of the same problems. The most serious for me was that my pcmcia modem card stopped working somewhere along the way. After recompiling kernels and pcmcia and different options etc I gave up. I reinstalled (slink) from scra

questions about slink to potato upgrade

1999-11-29 Thread Dan Christensen
Last night I upgraded my fairly stock slink machine to potato using "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade". I have various questions. The last group of questions is about all the errors that occurred. o Does potato contain all of the Y2K upgrades in slink and a half? And all current security up