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Re: potato ftp client uses libreadline2g



On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:03, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:39:14PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> > > > I just upgraded a box to potato this morning. I removed the
> > > > libreadline2g package after the upgrade because I noted libreadline4 was
> > > > installed.
> > > > 
> > > > apt-get remove libreadline2g
> > > > 
> > > > complains not one whit. BUT
> > > > 
> > > > when I try to run the box-stock ftp client it whimpers about missing
> > > > libreadline.so.2 (I think that's right, on a slink box at the moment)
> > > > and won't run until I reinstall librealine2g (an _optional_ _old-libs_
> > > > package).
> > > 
> > > Perhaps you could give us the output of dpkg -l ftp?  Potato currently
> > > has 0.10-3.1; do you have an earlier version, by any chance?
> > 
> > $ dpkg -l ftp
> > No packages found matching ftp.
> 
> Oh.  So which package is your ftp coming from?  When you talk about
> your "box-stock ftp client", what do you mean?  Is it /usr/bin/ftp?
> If so, could you do a: `dpkg -S /usr/bin/ftp' to find out which is the
> offending package.  Then `dpkg -l ftppkgname' to determine its
> version, and `dpkg --print-avail ftppkgname' to find out what potato's
> version is.

$ which ftp
/usr/bin/ftp

$ ls -l /usr/bin/ftp
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        56556 Feb 12  1999 /usr/bin/ftp

$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/ftp
dpkg: /usr/bin/ftp not found.

This has been my experience in the past, that sometimes programs
included in base*.tgz are not part of a package. A bad thing (tm) IMHO.

> > I started with a slink install (the 28MB dselect-ion option), made a new
> > kernel, added a handful of packages, and then did
> > 
> > apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> Hmm.  Didn't apt-get dist-upgrade warn you about lots of packages
> being held back?

No. As I recall, only kbd was held back, and it installed cleanly with
'apt-get install kbd' after the dist-upgrade.

Cheers,
 Pann
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