Re: More groff weirdness
On 12 Jun 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
> Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> writes:
>
> > Now poke yer nose into groff.list and just see if you can find a directory
> > called /usr/doc/groff. Nope, hain't there.
> >
> > Again, I'm using 0.93R6. If this has been fixed since, I'd love to hear
> > about it. I'm poor and would have to suck the new distribution through a
> > 14.4 line, so please cry for me. :)
>
> I have all the docs, but I'm using the new Debian 1.1 package. Time
> for the kleenex...
Well, I'm using an unmodified 0.93R6, and have a nice /usr/doc/groff
directory with several documents:
total 106
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1182 Jul 2 1995 BUG-REPORT.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54908 Jul 2 1995 ChangeLog.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 803 Jul 2 1995 Makefile.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8714 Jul 2 1995 NEWS.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7039 Jul 2 1995 PROBLEMS.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318 Jul 2 1995 PROJECTS.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 28 21:49 README.DEBIAN -> ../copyright/groff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 883 Jul 2 1995 README.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 380 Jul 2 1995 TODO.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14160 Jul 2 1995 meintro.me.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12902 Jul 2 1995 meref.me.gz
The installed groff package status is:
Package: groff
Status: install ok installed
Priority: important
Section: text
Maintainer: Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
Version: 1.09
Revision: 4
I'm not sure, but it is possible that the particular package file you
installed is corrupted. When I first installed my Debian system, I
used the Yggdrasil Internet Archives distrib, which, by the way, was
corrupted. In particular, the groff package was broken, and, despite
it installed aparently well, it didn't work correctly (unfortunately,
I never checked to see if the documentation had been installed).
I fixed the problem by simply downloading a fresh package file from
the archive, and installing it using the --force-install option to
dpkg, so that it replaced the broken package completely. Things are
now ok.
Regards,
M. S.
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Martin A. Soto J. Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes masoto@uniandes.edu.co
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