Re: Woody 'problems'
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 11:07, john gennard wrote:
> What led me astray here is that 'dpkg -l' told me that both
> 'xserver-common 4.1.0-16' and '3.3.6-44' were installed
See the reply by Colin Watson
> Before your response came, I'd installed etherconf.
> 'apt-cache showpkg' etc. denied it was available and as I was
> blundering around trying things, I tried 'apt-get install' and this
> found it
Strange, shouldn't happen
> - another package was required, from memory 'libconfhelper'.
> I don't understand why, but I've now got it.
'apt-cache show libconfhelper-perl' gives:
"Description: Library for editing configuration files
Library to make editing configuration files easier.
It provides functions to deal with configuration files in chunks,
allowing nice co-existence with users and other programs on the system.
It was written specifically for use with DebConf scripts."
So, it provides stuff :)
> At well into my seventies
You rock :)
> it can be hard going at times
For all of us
Kind regards, M.
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