Re: debian 3 upgrade lost PATH
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:13:27AM +1030, Mike Carter wrote:
> Thanks David,
>
>
> On 25 Feb 2002, at 6:17, David Roundy wrote:
>
> > We need to know more about what actually is happening. 'X cannot
> > find what it needs' and 'deselect cannot find what it needs' do not
> > really help us. What kind of errors are you getting?
>
> It couldn't find any of its paths although echo $PATH indicated all
> paths were in place. Dselect couldn't find its paths and files
> either.
What I meant to ask was what error message you got when you tried to run
dselect or X. For example, how did you know that X couldn't find any of
its paths? What paths and files did dselect say it was unable to find?
I understand, though, that since you've now reverted back to potato, you
can't now reproduce the problem.
> > Have you tried using apt-get instead of dselect?
>
> I did use apt-get update. Then installed the software with dselect.
> Since your message I reinstalled deb 2. How do I upgrade to
> deb3(testing) without this problem again. I have the 200 meg
> downloaded and I kept the packages list, so I shouldn't have to
> download them again.
Well, I have no idea what problem you had, so I'm afraid I can't be any
help with respect to avoiding it on upgrade.
--
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
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