Re: xfree-3.3.3.1 packages
I had no problem...but I did it a bit different...I dl'd the ones i needed
and dpkg -i *.deb 'd them. But they work and X is happy.
On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 03:52:36PM -0500, Jonathan Tomer wrote:
> i'm trying to get the xfree86 3.3.3.1 packages that vincent renardias
> provided (i need them for my display, and i'd rather use the debianized
> version than the upstream version (which i've had since it was released)),
> and i'm having some problems:
>
> (a) how do i tell apt that the Packages.gz is at
> http://master.debian.org/~vincent/Packages.gz , but the packages themselves
> are at http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1/*.deb? (the Packages
> file does have xfree-3.3.3.1/ prepended to the locations of the packages).
>
> (b) when i give up on trying to have apt download things and get all the
> debs manually, organize them in my home dir, and tell apt to look there, it
> says the file size is wrong. dpkg chokes on a broken pipe from gzip. were
> the debs mangled during upload? download (they *seemed* fine...)? by
> apt/dpkg? has anyone else had this problem?
>
> TIA, HAND,
> --phouchg
> The reader this signature encounters not failing to understand is cursed.
>
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