Re: mc problem

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On 5 Jul 1997, Michael Harnois wrote:

> allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au (Lindsay Allen) writes:
> 
> > I certainly understand things better now and it seems that the
> > problem is not in mc at all.  I just wiped every mc related file
> > from my box and installed Paul's mc_4.0-linux-1_i386.deb and it
> > behaves in exactly the same way.  There is a lot of disk activity
> > when I hit Enter on a .deb so I think the file is being opened.  I
> > just don't get to see the result.
> 
> This doesn't work at all for me, either. View is fine, but hitting
> Enter does nothing. Lindsay, if you hit Ctrl-o after such an operation 
> you should be able to see what the shell returned. When I hit enter on 
> binutils_2.8.1-2.deb, for example, I get 
> 
> ./binutils_2.8.1-2.deb: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `!<arch>'
> ./binutils_2.8.1-2.deb: line 1: `!<arch>'
> 
This looks like dpkg problems.

Try downgrading to 1.4.0.8 (the 1.3 release version) and see if that fixes
it.

Luck,

Dwarf
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