Re: HELP!! keep me Debian.......
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Person, Rod wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm haveing major problems. After I decided to switch to KDE, I've had
> nothing but problems. For one binutils 2.9 will not install now matter
> what I do and it would uninstall either. When I try I get the error.
> write error locking to directory!! directory or file does not
> exist.
Sounds like the directory you want to install into is not mounted (see
below)...
> If I try to remove it, it tells me it too broken to remove re-install!!!
>
> Problem #2....when I run dselect it's trying to upgrade dpkg-perl. I
> downloaded every dpkg package I found an none where dpkg-perl so now I
> can't use dselect!! What the deal.
What media did you use for installation ? CD , FTP ? Could it be you mixed
up different ditributions, like e.g. hamm and slink ?
You don't need to use dselect to install packages, dselect is just a
user frontend to dpkg, the actual package manager.
See dpkg --help or man dpkg for information. Installing is as easy as
downloading the package and issueing: dpkg -i <package>.deb
> mounting file system.....
> not mounting anything.
Umm, if indeed your /usr partition is to be mounted there then it means
you are in big trouble !
Have a look at /etc/fstab and mail us the contents...
Regards,
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