Re: bash PATH, dselect and ftape
Chris> 1. This question is more of a general bash question and if I
Chris> shouldn't be posting it here someone let me know and I won't pester
Chris> this group about it any more. All the following applies to the root
Chris> account, I haven't checked it for an ordinary user yet.
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Read the man pages for bash and xterm (or rxvt) and try to understand what
happens. You can have shells that are not login, they use ~/.bashrc. Every
"normal" (ie non-login) xterm reads this file _unless_ you tell xterm to be
start a login shell via the -ls option. Login shells read ~/.bash_profile.
Chris> 2. I'm trying to add packages to my installation, among them lyx and
Chris> mailcrypt and taper. Dselect complains that lyx needs the package
Chris> xforms and mailcrypt needs pgp. However, I have downloaded both of
Chris> these packages and told dselect about them. When it asks to
When you tell dselect about the directories, it wants to find the
Packages[.gz] file. You might have noticed the error message when that
failed.
If you only want to install three packages, why don't you just use dpkg -i ?
Chris> 3. I can't find ftape anywhere. Does anyone know where to find this?
Since around 1.3.72, it is in the kernel sources in the directory
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/ftape. Just recompile your kernel (use "make
menuconfig" or "make xconfig" instead of make config).
Hope this helps, Dirk
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Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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