The solution to this problem is simply to purge dosemu and then reinstall it. Thank you Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler.
The problem is that dselect only removes packages - it does not purge them. This means that one cannot use dselect and remove and then successfully install dosemu. This is analogous to the problems I had reintsalling the teTeX packages recently. In both cases, one cannot remove and then immediately reinstall some packages because of simple problems. Perhaps I am the only one encountering such problems - but probably not. Maybe this should be in the release testing program? (Sorry, but I cannot volunteer to do this at the moment...) Paul Rightley On 27-Jun-97 Paul Rightley wrote: >I just install dosemu 0.66.3-1 (the version in stable). It manages >to install perfectly, but 'dos' gives the error 'can't open /etc/dosemu/conf' >or something similar. When I look in /etc/dosemu, I find conf link to a >file that is not present - 'dist'. Also, no /etc/dosemu.conf file is >provided. This leaves dosemu unusable (at least as far as I know and as >far as I have RTFM). Has this been seen before? > >Paul Rightley > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .