On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:50:57PM +0000, Chris Mutchler wrote: > Okay, I've had this sparc for a year or so, and up until today it was > running RedHat v6.2 without problems. I have gotten rather sick of > RedHat recently, and having had such a good time with debian on my x86 > boxes, I decided to migrate this box over, with the intention of moving > 2 others afterwards. > > Anyway, I've managed to get the base system installed, however I am > having the following two problems... > > 1. When using vi to edit a file, it will not allow me to write any > changes to disk after modifying them. I can create a new file using > cat, and then copy it over to the correct file name, but vi just won't > do it for me.
Are you running slink? That sounds like a problem that was resolved a few years ago. > 2. The second problem involves using apt-get. I am getting an error > that a package has an incorrect 'Depends' field. The exact error is: > > dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 16078 > package 'tinyproxy': > 'Depends' field, reference to 'libc6': version contains ' ' > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) > > If any of you have the wisdom that is needed to solve these problems, I > would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. And this sounds like an even older dpkg bug. Can you give me some details on the version of Debian you installed on your sparc? -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
