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Re: apt-get mutt ?????



On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:22:35AM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote:
> * Theo Bierman <theob@za.uu.net> [020122 09:09]:
>     
> > 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)
> 
> You've missed the dsc file from the same line. Either download it from
> the same or issue
> wget http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/pool/non-US/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.3.26-1.dsc
> (assumed you have wget installed). Afterwards run
> dpkg-source -x mutt_1.3.26-1.dsc
> it will automatically unpack the two .gz files, you don't have to unpack
> them manually.

  I worked like a charm thanks now I have a mutt-1.3.26 directory with the following subdirectories contrib  debian  upstream. So now I can untar mutt from the tar.gz in the updtream dir right, but then what about the ssl stuff? 
> 
> > I'm getting a lot of errors since yesterday, perhaps I should just
> > upgrade to 2.2r5 and then see what happens....?
> 
> There shouldn't be too many changes, I would give it a try.
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Karsten
> 
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