URGENT hamm install help needed
Hello again <smile like child getting caught being naughty>
The boy sure has got himself into trouble now !!!
Having learned heaps by installing bo and then scattering files and other
odds and sods at random around my h/d I decided to start again - but this
time with hamm, having read on many occasions how stable hamm is.
Great set-up in hamm - the basic installation went like a dream
Being a home user at the moment I selected the home user download option (
~404Mb ), chose ftp as the install method, upgraded packages, bypassed
selection (as suggested) and went straight to install.
As i'm on a time-limited ISP the download was interrupted several time but
seemed to complete OK ( in about 8 hours @ 33,3K )
The configuration phase failed completely - apparently most of the
applications are seeking libg++.so.27 & libc5 and bitching about not
finding them. Also had dependancy and conflict problems - probably caused
by an earlier package failing to install ???
I also got complaints about the device being full - on an 800Mb partition
am I running out of room ???
On the assumption that I messed something up - 8 hours later I had download
the whole lot again - and got the same problem (and, in the middle of the
night, didn't think to write down every one of the million+ errors - even
dselect gave up on me and sulked !)
It seems almost as if the default selection for dselect by choosing the
home user option is to load everything !
On the second installation, noting the problems, I chose 'select' from the
dselect menu, didn't do anything and went back to the menu - no dependancy
or conflict problems were pointed out.
1. <truly stupid question deleted>
2. Do i need to manually select packages to get libg++ and libc5?
3. Maybe I should stick to bo (but, if hamm is going stable at "any minute
now" would I gain anything ? would I lose much ?)
4. There seems to be as many problems using autoup (gauging by this list)
so I have discounted installing bo for the sole purpose of upgrading to hamm
Thank you all for your help.
Ivan.
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