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Re: apt-get: did not finish the job?



On Thu, 27 May 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote:

> "Keith G. Murphy" wrote:
> > 
> > Johann Spies at Johann wrote:
> > >
> > > Last night I installed libc6_2.1.1-7 and potato's xcdroast using apt-get
> > > on my hamm system. During the process the ncurses package was also
> > > upgraded.
> > >
> > > Today when I ran "make menuconfig" in my kernel-source tree I get the
> > > following error message:
> > >
> > [cut]
> > 
> > Exactly the same thing has been happening to me.  I have upgraded
> > several packages using apt-get.  I do not know at what point ncurses
> > broke.
> > 
> Hmmm.  After upgrading to ncurses4-dev and kernel-2.0.36-source (was
> using 2.0.34 source tree when the error occurred), the problem has gone
> away.  :-/
> 
> I notice you're on hamm, Johann: sounds like an incompatibility between
> 2.0.34 source and a newer ncurses package...  Why don't you just try
> 2.0.36?

I upgraded to 2.2.7 last night and the same problem occurred.

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