Re: apt-get mutt ?????
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:17:53AM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote:
> * Theo Bierman <theob@za.uu.net> [020122 07:01]:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I have been struggling to get mutt installed on my 2.2r3 poptato
> > system.
> >
> > When I run apt-get install mutt it works fine however when I go into
> > it the cursor just flashes and nothing else works. I then read
> > somewhere that the following needs to be installed:
> >
> > ncurses and slang
>
> you can find the package names with
> apt-cache search --names-only slang
> apt-cache search --names-only ncurses
>
> > A normal apt-get on either of these did not work so I then downloaded
> > the tar.gz and ran it like that. Both installed no problem.
>
> Three pointers if you compile the source yourself:
>
> 1) Have the "-dev"-versions of the libraries installed too: If a package
> needs i.E. libncurses4 then to compile it you need libncurses4-dev
> as well
> 2) Maybe you have luck downloading the source of the woody or sid
> package. For mutt you would have to go to
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/non-us/mutt.html
> Down the page there is a 'Source Code' line. Download the 'dsc', the
> 'orig.tar.gz' and the 'diff.gz' files into some directory, go to that
> directory and enter 'dpkg-source -x name-of-dsc-file'.
> This will give you an folder with the program source, debian patches
> applied and the possibility to build a package from that easily by
> entering that folder and issuing 'fakeroot debian/rules binary'.
> If you're lucky this will give you a nice deb package suiting to your
> system. If you're unlucky come back here :-)
got the following files: mutt_1.3.26.orig.tar.gz mutt_1.3.26-1.diff.gz. Now do you mean dpkg-source -x mutt_1.3.26.orig.tar.gz and dpkg-source -x mutt_1.3.26-1.diff.gz. Cos if you do then this is what I get:
dpkg-source -x mutt_1.3.26.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: error: syntax error in source control file ./mutt_1.3.26.orig.tar.gz at line 1: line with unknown format (not field-colon-value)
and
dpkg-source -x mutt_1.3.26-1.diff.gz
dpkg-source: error: syntax error in source control file ./mutt_1.3.26-1.diff.gz at line 1: line with unknown format (not field-colon-value)
I'm getting a lot of errors since yesterday, perhaps I should just upgrade to 2.2r5 and then see what happens....?
> 3) If you want to compile by hand use GNU stow at least. It saves a lot
> of hazzle (just my 2c).
>
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> Karsten Heymann <karsten.heymann@gmx.de> <karsten@ecology.uni-kiel.de>
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