Sometime in November last year Javier Vasquez wrote: On Nov 20, 2007 6:44 PM, Michael Banck wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:38:31PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> > I tried to install man-database, so I could use "man", >> > but I found dependency issues: >> > >> > # apt-get install man-database >> > ... >> > man-database: Depends: bsdmainutils but it is not >> > going to be installed >> > >> > # apt-get install bsdmainutils >> > ... >> > bsdmainutils: Conflicts: bsdutils ( > >> > 1:2.12-3+hurd.2 is to be installed >> > >> > So it seems I can't get "man" to work, :(... >> >> That's a general issue right now until util-linux (from >> which [ironically] bsdutils is from) is fully ported. >> >> The story behind this is probably an unfortunate move of >> a binary from bsdutils to bsdmaintutils, which made those >> conflicts necessary. >> >> >> Michael
> I see... No luck then, just a matter of patience from > user perspective... Hi. I tried to get a Hurd system up and running back in May of this year. I ran into this same issue and was never able to figure out how to install, for example, Emacs. (And I got various errors when trying to compile Emacs, so I was hoping the .deb would install; and without Emacs I really couldn't use the system :-)). I am wondering if this is still an open issue. If not, is there anything that a user can do to work around this? I tried various incantations of dpkg to force installation but it always caused more problems, as, if I uninstalled one (of bsdutils or bsdmainutils) large parts of the system seemed always to depend on one or the other. (Sorry I don't remember exact details, but if there was interest I could try the install again and report exactly what I get.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
