On 2011-03-15 15:36:34 Andreas Goesele wrote: >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> writes: >> On 2011-03-15 11:48:48 Andreas Goesele wrote: >>>"Dr. Ed Morbius" <dredmorbius@gmail.com> writes: >>>> There's always 'auto-apt' or 'apt-file' to track down the package >>>> owner of a specific file. >>>> >>>> Since your attempt to invoke documentation turns up a reference to a >>>> specific missing file, I'd go that route. >>> >>>Just to clarify: The missing files are in the respective kde packages >>>(konqueror, okular ...). The problem is that they are not installed >>>using "apt-get install" or "aptitude install". They are installed using >>>"dpkg -i". I think they should be installed also by apt-get or aptitude >>>and I'm wondering why they are not. >>> >> That's probably wrong, since apt-get and aptitude invoke dpkg to do >> the install for each package. apt-get and aptitude are unable to >> install packages without using dpkg. > >Start-Date: 2011-03-15 21:13:54 >Commandline: apt-get --reinstall --no-install-recommends install konqueror >Install: konqueror:i386 (4.4.5-2) >End-Date: 2011-03-15 21:14:01 > >(/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/konqueror remains empty) > >dpkg -i konqueror_4%3a4.4.5-2_i386.deb > >(/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/konqueror full of stuff) (I still don't believe you; I've never seen APT configured to do that, although it is possible, I think.) Please post the output of (apt-config dump | grep -i dpkg). Here's mine for reference: Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.dpkg-[a-z]+$"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; DPkg::Tools ""; DPkg::Tools::Options ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2"; DPkg::Post-Invoke ""; DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums -- generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi"; DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -d /var/lib/update-notifier ]; then touch /var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp; fi; if [ -e /var/lib/update- notifier/updates-available ]; then echo > /var/lib/update-notifier/updates- available; fi "; -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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