Re: fresh install...
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 01:52:32PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote:
> I just installed using a pretty heavy package list.
Congratulations!
> I didn't use the installer floppy image, as I don't have a mac, so no
> macos to boot from :) I untarred the base2_1.tar.gz, and rebooted and
> went from there.
The way I usually do it...
> Anyway, some issues I noticed:
> while configuring many packages that compiled .el (emacs lisp I assume?)
> files into bytecode there were many warnings. emacs seems to be working
> ok, so I don't know if this is important...
Platform independent. I got this on a PC yesterday.
> lynx depends on slang 0.99.38 (or something like that)...the only
> available slang package I found was 1.2...can something be done about
> this? Should I try and recompile the lynx .deb?
I'll do it, shortly. Today, maybe...
> When trying to build the ssh .deb, I came across an error in ./configure
> complaining about the lack of the xauth binary. It refuses to enable X
> support in ssh without this...is this supposed to be in xbase or
> elsewhere?
It's in xbase-clients most likely. Get it from
http://master.debian.org/~dan; I'm reluctant to put this in the archive
because of how heavily it's patched.
Dan
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