Re: dselect and lprng...
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Scott Stanley wrote:
> Oddly enough, I have never looked at lprng before, so there is no way it
> found it on my system. When I complete the install process, it still
> says I want to install it, but that it isn't installed. It is almost as
> if dselect does not recognize that I want to install the package, so it
> does not hunt for it on the FTP site.
>
> > Scott Stanley wrote:
> > >
> > > I was just trying to download and install the lprng package from stable
> > > using dselect 1.4.0.7 with the ftp Access method. Basically, I went into
> > > Select, and selected the package lprng (I got the dependencies window
> > > saying lprng recommended magicfilter, but I did not select magicfilter).
> > >
> > > The select menu item for lprng looks like;
> > >
> > > _* Opt net lprng <none> 2.4.2-1 lpr/lpd printer spooling
> > >
> > > When I exit (pressing Enter) and Install, I get
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > Processing status file...
> > >
> > > Processing Package files...
> > > stable...
> > > contrib...
> > > non-free...
> > >
> > > Constructing list of files to get...
> > >
> > > Approximate total space required: 0k
> > > Available space in ../../../../../dosc/Debian/1.2: 235632k
> > > Nothing to get.
> > > Processing downloaded files...(for corrupt/old/partial)
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
(I'm the person who suggested running update in dselect.)
I couldn't find lprng at ftp.mcc.ac.uk so I went to ftp.debian.org and
it wasn't there either, except in bo. So it's a mystery to me whence
came "Opt net lprng <none> 2.4.2-1", but no surprise that dselect
couldn't download it.
--
David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
U.K. email: d.wright@open.ac.uk tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151
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