Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade
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: why is potato called 'potato'?
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Sven Esbjerg wrote:
> 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 is not a symlink
> > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomniORB2.so.6 is not a symlink
> > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomniLC.so.2 is not a symlink
> >
> > What do they mean?
>
> I had somewhat they the same error. I stopped the installation and installed
> theese libs by hand and then it worked.
>
> > dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
> >
> > warning: error occured during execution of /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse
> > -a at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 241.
> >
> > (For example, it occurred right after the line
> > "Installing new version of config file /etc/imlib/imrc ...".)
>
> Will you file the bug? (I got the same error over and over).
>
> > - The most annoying part was the following error, which stopped the
> > install:
> >
> > install/dpkg-dev: Byte-compiling for emacs20
> > /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common-install:
> > cd: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg-dev: No such file or directory
> > emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/
> > emacsen-common-install emacs20 failed at
> > /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28.
> > dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29
>
> Somewhere along from slink to potatto the dir-structure for Emacs got changed
> but the install-script does noet reflect this. I fixed the problem by moving
> the missing files/dirs from the old place to the new place. I shure hope this
> is fixed when potato is released - it's not vere easy to figure these things
> out if one is a newbee.
>
> Still, fewer errors ocurred than I had expected.
> --
> Sven Esbjerg
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>
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