On 4/21/20 6:59 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Debian Ports has neither "contrib" nor "non-free". >> > > Ah well, that certainly explains that. Seems deb-src does not exist > either.
No, because the sources are available on the main archives anyway: deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian main contrib non-free >> No, that works (see below). It's most likely your band-aid installation that >> causes these problems. > > Well I did open the cover of the machine to see that there was an IDE > interface in there but the cable needed seemed to be an odd width. The > front of the machine has a slot for a CDROM as well as a 4mm DAT tape > drive and I have neither of those. Would be great to try to boot from > tape again one day. Hardly practical :) The only way that I could figure > to boot the machine was to dd the netinst into a scsi disks cylinder 0 > and then boot that from the firmware. When the installer asked where the > installation media was I simply entered manually /dev/sdb and everything > ran fine. > > In any case the machine seems to be running fine and I am happy that I > did not need to resort to TFTP/BOOTp nonsense to get the installer > working. It all just worked out of the box and with an actual CRT type > old terminal attached to the ttya port there was no problem at all. Try installing "libc6-dev" alone to see what the error message is. Normally, apt will tell you what actually prevents it from installing packages. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913