Re: potato ftp client uses libreadline2g

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 07:38:38AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote:
[slink -> potato upgrade stops ftp from working.]
> $ which ftp
> /usr/bin/ftp
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/ftp
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        56556 Feb 12  1999 /usr/bin/ftp
> 
> $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/ftp
> dpkg: /usr/bin/ftp not found.
> 
> This has been my experience in the past, that sometimes programs
> included in base*.tgz are not part of a package. A bad thing (tm) IMHO.

So Joey's idea of /etc/alternatives/ftp doesn't work.  Maybe it is in
base*.tgz but isn't in one of the base packages, as suggested?

Help anyone?  (I haven't got time to check right now, sorry.)

   Julian

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