Re: how to check whether everything is installed
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Birgit Kellner wrote:
> Thanks a lot to everyone who has replied to this thread so far. I
> managed to sort out some package conflicts with dselect, but they have
> not resolved the basic problem. What's more, dselect has configured man,
> to the effect that I cannot find manual entries which I could access
> before ...
My not-so-very-well-grounded quess is that when you used floppies to
install your debian, you missed too many packages, which were depending on
each other... In my case I had first some problems because of defect
multicd-installation-program. It didn't install at all a basic packet
(dpkg-perl) and I made a mistake to install with dpkg -i method quite many
packages separately and my dselect was some time totally out of order. It
showed uninstalled packets installed and vice versa. Finally I had to
reinstall the whole thing. Now it works quite perfectly.
Could it be possible for you to connect your computer with another one
possesing a cd-rom driver? Is it possible to use somehow for example
laplink cable to connect computers to use the other computer's
cd-rom-drive to install the other?
hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi
> The basic and (perhaps deceptively) simple question is: I cannot use
> certain basic commands such as "make config", where bash keeps returning
> "command not found". I was thinking that this might be the case because
> something was not installed properly, or because something which needs
> to be installed is not installed at all. Would this be a likely
> explanation (and if so, how can I find out what package is needed to
> make the COMMAND work - I suppose this is not the same as asking what
> package contains a certain FILE), or is there an alternative scenario
> that might explain the present state of affairs? Are there simply
> certain parameters specifically to run "make config" that I am
> blissfully unaware of?
>
> --
> birgit kellner
> department for indian philosophy
> hiroshima university
>
>
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