Re: installation notes
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
:
: The Packages files not always up to date. This causes the dselect
: tool to think version X of a particular package is available from the
: ftp server, when in reality the package available is X+epsilon. This
: causes dselect to try to retrieve a non-existing file, and it fails.
: This in turn causes some dependencies to fail.
Yes -- so a question to all the other readers and/or maintainers and/or
Ian: is there (I'm sure, it is ;-) a script that scans available *.deb
files and creates the Packages file? (Since sometime I retrieve a
updated version of a *.deb file and want dselect know of this.
: A couple of packages are missing some of the install scripts. For
: example sudo. Here is the installation error. I guess this should
: be directed to the maintainer of the sudo package?
:
: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
: Setting up sudo ...
: dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file or directory
: dpkg: error processing sudo (--install):
: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
As a quick fix:
cd /bin
ln -s /usr/bin/perl .
since the sudo's post-install script relies on /bin/perl ...
:
: kerneld should be started before ANYTHING else happens, with the
: possible exception of a root filesystem check. The reason for this
: All in all i am very happy to have discovered the Debian
: distribution.
Me too.
Heiko
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