Re: Replacing svgalib -- how?
As soon as I get a free evening I'll be producing a Debian package of
svgalib 1.2.10, which has just been released. That probably means
Friday.
--
Richard Kettlewell (Debian svgalib maintainer)
http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/ richard@elmail.co.uk
Scott Barker writes:
>I'm trying to replace svgalib-1.2.8 with svgalib-1.2.9
>
>I'm running debian 0.93R6
>
>I grabbed the source for 1.2.9 and applied the same diffs as were applied to
>1.2.8 to make the debain package. I edited the debian.rules file to change the
>version to 1.29-0, and then created the .deb package. So far so good.
>
>So, what's the command to actually install the thing? I tried
>
>dpkg -i svgalib-1.29-0.deb /
^huh?
>
>which (I think) has worked for me before. However, it fails with an error from
>dpkg-split about / being a directory and not a file.
>
>So, I tried dropping svgalib-1.29-0.deb into my mirror of
>debian/stable/binary/graphics, and used dselect. It got unpacked ok, but now
>configuring is failing with the message:
>
>Must specify -r or -w.
>dpkg: error processing svgalib (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> svgalib
>
>dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1.
>
>
>Can anyone help me with this mess?
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