Ben- I am currently running "stable". It says in the banner GNU/Linux 2.2. My uname info is as follows:
Linux pluto 2.2.19 #1 Mon Apr 2 13:29:46 EDT 2001 sparc unknown I reinstalled the box this morning, because apt began seg-faulting whenever it was run. I am still having the same problems, both with vi and with dpkg. I am going to try and get a newer version of dpkg over the network, and see if I install it manually it will change anything. But as it stands, I am still having problems. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Chris Mutchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux defcon4 2.4.18 #10 Fri Mar 15 11:40:12 GMT 2002 i686 unknown On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 02:50, Ben Collins wrote: > 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]
