Re: aptitude freezes after install

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0500, microwaverich <richgrif@one.net> was heard to say:
> Anyway, I plunged into the above steps.  Everything went ok until I  
> tried compiling aptitude.  Here's that part of the script file:
>
> rich@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good 0.4.11
> rich@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --bad tip
> Testing changeset 1499:79935933f5ba (305 changesets remaining, ~8 tests)
> 136 files updated, 0 files merged, 8 files removed, 0 files unresolved
> rich@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ sh ./autogen.sh
> ../autogen.sh: line 5: aclocal-1.9: command not found
>
> $ find / -name aclocal*   turned up a four items named aclocal, but no  
> aclocal-1.9.

  Ah, my mistake.  I forgot you need some extra tools to build from the
repository.  Install the packages "automake" and "autoconf" and you
should be set.

    Thanks for your help,
  Daniel