On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:53:21 +0200 Martin Lorenz <martin@lorenz.eu.org> wrote: > > The following occurs when I try to install a new version of udev... > seems to be caused by 'initscripts', which is - I have no idea why - not > installed on my system... > > not sure if I should file a bug. seems too trivial a problem to me?! [ apt-get stuff deleted ] So, if I'm following you, you don't have initscripts -- a "Priority: required" package -- installed at all. Also, you have the package "mount-aes" (whatever that is -- there's *NO* Debian package by that name, according to p.d.o) instead of "mount". This looks to me like you're not really running Debian/sid at all, despite your choice of "Subject:" lines; and instead are running some "related-to-Debian" distribution like Knoppix or Morphix or something like that. If so, you need to say that when posing questions, since distros like Knoppix use an odd set of packages that draws from all the various Debian distros (stable, testing, unstable, and possibly experimental) as well as packages that aren't part of Debian at all. People here might bang their head against a wall trying to wrap their minds around some odd problem you're having, and the reason it's so odd to them is that you're not running Debian. At any rate, I don't see anything in what you posted that implies a Debian bug. You're trying to install udev out of sid. udev needs initscripts, and you don't have initscripts installed. Maybe you didn't get it out of the Knoppix/Morphix/whatever install; maybe its functionality is in some other, oddly-specific-to-your-distro package (like "mount-aes" apparently includes the functionality of Debian's "mount" package), and Debian's "udev" package doesn't know that this other package provides "initscripts." If I'm right, and you're running (or started with) some other Debian-derived distro, then you probably want to talk to the people using or providing that distro: you're getting a very odd system state out of their install, and Knoppix/Morphix/whatever folks are probably going to know more about the non-standard set of packages and versions they use, and which you currently have installed. -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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