Re: Xfig installation configuration stage bug
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure which package's fault this is, so I'm not filing this as
> a bug yet, but when I installed xfig from the released Hamm (xfig
> 3.2.0-2) using the APT method of dselect (apt 0.1.3), I got the
> following output:
This is the menu program printing things on the screen asyncronously.
Jason
> Checking system integrity...ok
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> transfig xfig
> 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 568k of archives. After unpacking 1233k will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> Get http://debian.bard.org.il hamm/main transfig [128k]
> Get http://debian.bard.org.il hamm/main xfig [440k]
> Fetched 568k in 1m58s (4807b/s)
> (Reading database ... 28438 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking transfig (from transfig_3.2.0-2.2.deb) ...
> Unpacking xfig (from xfig_3.2.0-2.deb) ...
> Setting up transfig (3.2.0-2.2) ...
> Setting up xfig (3.2.0-2) ...
> xfig can use Imperial (inches) or metric (cm) units.
> Which one do you want by default? [i/m]Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background)
> Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ At this stage I didn't see any change for a few seconds, and when running
> "top" on another xterm I didn't see any new process, so I pressed "Enter"
> and got the text below ]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> You must specify either `i' or `m' [i/m]: m
> Making metric units the default...done
> There are two application defaults (app-defaults) files for xfig -- Fig-mono
> and Fig-color. Which one would you like to use? [c/m] c
> Linking Fig-color to Fig...done
>
> Press enter to continue.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Xfig installed fine, but there is certainly some bug there.
>
> I'd provide any other info if you like.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Amos
>
> --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for
> 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen
> Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England."
> ISRAEL amos@gezernet.co.il | -- Anonymous
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deity-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
>
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deity-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: