Arrgh, its the newbie again...

["Rick" <kitty5@dial.pipex.com>]

Hi all,
I am having real problems installing packages, i decided that the man pages
would be a good place to start, so i downloaded - groff thingy, a lib
required by groff, man-db, and manpages.deb

i am trying to install them from a mounted msdos partition using dpkg

dpkg -i /dos-d/linux/packages/the_name_of_file.deb

all i get is error messages, when logged on as root messages about
unexpected eof, when logged on as rick, loads of stuff about things not
being in the path (carnt recall exactly what)

what am i doing wrong?

Rick

Email -> kitty5@dial.pipex.com
homepage -> http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/kitty5/
(Raytracing, 3D Animation and Emulation)


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