Re: netbase from potato not configuring
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On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Hey guys -- I just did the apt-get stuff to upgrade to potato, but the
> silly thing died several times. After restarting it often enough, I
> got to the point where netbase was causing eight other packages to not
> install -- netbase kept returning "hostname: host not found" or
> something very similar.
>
> The solution to this problem ( after much banging of head..) was to
> add my hostname and IP address to /etc/hosts -- does netbase require
> knowing that much about /etc/hosts ? am I missing the point?
IIRC, the install sets that entry in /etc/hosts for you. Of course, if you
skip that step then you have to do it yourself...
Of course this may be wrong. Feel free to correct me if so (no need to CC,
i'm subscribed to the list)
> And, a more applicable-to-the-future question -- how can I view the
> postrm and prerm and postinst and preinst scripts of a deb? :)
They're in /var/lib/dpkg/info. You can even edit them if there's a bug,
and dpkg will use the edited version next time.
IIRC if there's an error in the preinst, you'll get an error while
unpacking and the script won't be saved. "dpkg -e <debfile> [<dir>]" will
extract these scripts from the deb into a DEBIAN/ subdir in the specified
directory, or the current one if no dir is specified.
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