Re: Hurd installation problem.
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:26:18AM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> > Ok, so why does telnetd require ncurses? I'm not completely sure that
> > telnetd is hanging for this reason, though.
> >
> I am. ;-)
>
> If you look at the telnet source you can see that it makes use
> of ncurses (or whatever the default console code is -- in hurd's case
> on Debian it's ncurses). It uses this code to control the screen
> display.
Note he wrote telnet*d*, the daemon.
> > How close is the 1015 tarball to the most recent collection
> > of .deb files?
> It is up to date with the 1004 series of Hurd base packages (Marcus,
> please correct me if I am wrong).
Yes. All packages are up to date.
> > Is it necessary to install the .deb files at all, or can I
> > just untar the 1015 tarball and run with that?
> No, yes. The tarball contains the base system, and should have
> everything you need to get a bare system. You then need to install
> the various *.deb files for non-critical stuff like a decent editor,
> development tools, etc. I am not sure (but suspect) that the tarball
> contains an old set of telnet utilities.
No. The telnet in recent tar files should be recent.
I am not sure what is causing the problem. Maybe the pfinet server is not
set up correctly.
Marcus
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Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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