bsdmainutils and bsdutils
Sometime in November last year Javier Vasquez wrote:
On Nov 20, 2007 6:44 PM, Michael Banck wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:38:31PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>> > I tried to install man-database, so I could use "man",
>> > but I found dependency issues:
>> >
>> > # apt-get install man-database
>> > ...
>> > man-database: Depends: bsdmainutils but it is not
>> > going to be installed
>> >
>> > # apt-get install bsdmainutils
>> > ...
>> > bsdmainutils: Conflicts: bsdutils ( >
>> > 1:2.12-3+hurd.2 is to be installed
>> >
>> > So it seems I can't get "man" to work, :(...
>>
>> That's a general issue right now until util-linux (from
>> which [ironically] bsdutils is from) is fully ported.
>>
>> The story behind this is probably an unfortunate move of
>> a binary from bsdutils to bsdmaintutils, which made those
>> conflicts necessary.
>>
>>
>> Michael
> I see... No luck then, just a matter of patience from
> user perspective...
Hi. I tried to get a Hurd system up and running back in May
of this year. I ran into this same issue and was never able
to figure out how to install, for example, Emacs. (And I
got various errors when trying to compile Emacs, so I was
hoping the .deb would install; and without Emacs I really
couldn't use the system :-)). I am wondering if this is
still an open issue. If not, is there anything that a user
can do to work around this? I tried various incantations of
dpkg to force installation but it always caused more
problems, as, if I uninstalled one (of bsdutils or
bsdmainutils) large parts of the system seemed always to
depend on one or the other. (Sorry I don't remember exact
details, but if there was interest I could try the install
again and report exactly what I get.)
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