Re: did something stupid - removed gzip
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:29:58PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> CaT wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:18:01AM -0600, Jason N. Price wrote:
> > > Okay, I just did something that, in hindsight, was very stupid. :) I have
> > > been getting a lot of errors from gzip, so I decided to apt-get remove it
> > > and then re-install it. I removed it, but I now seem unable to reinstall
> > > it because gzip is not there. Ooops. Is there any way I can fix this?
> >
> > grab the tarball from ftp.gnu.org and compile it. then put the executable
> > in /usr/bin and do an apt-get install to get the debian version.
>
> "Okay, I've got the tarball - gzip.tar.gz, now what do I do?"
Ok. It was wrong of my to assume that ppl wont think 'You EEEEEEEEDIOT!'
first :)
As such, in response I'd like to say:
ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/gzip>> ls
---> PASV
<--- 227 Entering Passive Mode (198,186,203,77,15,20).
---- Connecting data socket to (198.186.203.77) port 3860
---> LIST
<--- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
<--- 226-Transfer complete.
<--- 226 Quotas off
---- Closing data socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 119146 Aug 20 1993 gzip-1.2.4.msdos.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 788219 Sep 17 1993 gzip-1.2.4.shar
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 798720 Aug 20 1993 gzip-1.2.4.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 220623 Aug 20 1993 gzip-1.2.4.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 832431 Feb 3 1999 gzip-1.2.4a.shar
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 798720 Sep 5 1999 gzip-1.2.4a.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 220774 Feb 3 1999 gzip-1.2.4a.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 115 Dec 7 1993 gzip-vms.README
---- Closing idle connection
---> QUIT
<--- 221 Goodbye.
---- Closing control socket
ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/gzip>>
You EEEEDIOTS! 8)
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