Re: Help installing debian "Other" packages
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Wayne Richardson wrote:
> I can download these packages from the internet from my windows '95
> machine and then transfer them to the Linux system using a diskette.
> When I try to run dpkg on these files I get errors.
Are you *certain* that you are transferring them in BINARY mode?
Do you have your floppy drive mounted so that it does automatic *nix<->DOS
conversion? (It shouldn't.)
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