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Re: Fakeroot failing



On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Steve McIntyre wrote:

>On 21 Aug 1998, Rob Browning wrote:
>
>>Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>>
>>> Help! I've just done a dselect run to get my system up to date with the
>>> last few hamm changes, and now I can't get fakeroot to work in building my
>>> packages; it fails silently... Suggestions, anyone please?
>>
>>Did you install libtricks?  If so, that's your problem.  Kill it.  It
>>is cool, but last time I tried it, it wasn't quite ready for prime
>>time.
>
>Hmmm. I've never used the libtricks package; this problem came from
>nowhere AFAICT. But I've just tried installing it and it appears to fix my
>problem...!

Hmmm. No it didn't, it just caused others instead. But I've reinstalled
fakeroot and now all is well. <sigh>

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