Re: stat question

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:55:43AM +0100, David selby wrote:
> PS still cant find coreutils

You won't be able to find coreutils on woody. It hadn't been created yet
then!

> or stat, though its not a problem now.
> 
> debian:/home/web# dpkg -i coreutils
> dpkg: error processing coreutils (--install):
> cannot access archive: No such file or directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> coreutils
> debian:/home/web# dpkg -i stat
> dpkg: error processing stat (--install):
> cannot access archive: No such file or directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> stat
> debian:/home/web#

'dpkg -i' doesn't work that way; it takes a .deb filename. Use 'apt-get
install stat' or some other package manager if you just have the package
name.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]