I installed debian on my (previously slackware) box last night. The experience whent somewhat like this:
boot disk okay, root disk okay, partition stuff okay, make a boot floppy okay, install base disks okay, reboot okay, run dselect...uhoh I installed the latest dpkg package I could find (0.93.70?) and then when I typed 'dselect' I got: "/etc/termcap", line 3927: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'GR' "/etc/termcap", line 3927: terminal 'scoansi', RT aliased to @8 "/etc/termcap", line 3927: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'G1' "/etc/termcap", line 3927: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'G2' "/etc/termcap", line 3927: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'G3' "/etc/termcap", line 3927: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'G4' "/etc/termcap", line 3927: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'G5' "/etc/termcap", line 3927: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'G6' "/etc/termcap", line 3927: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'G7' "/etc/termcap", line 3927: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'G8' "/etc/termcap", line 3928: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'GU' "/etc/termcap", line 3928: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'GD' "/etc/termcap", line 3929: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'NU' "/etc/termcap", line 3930: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'WL' "/etc/termcap", line 3930: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'WR' "/etc/termcap", line 3930: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'CL' "/etc/termcap", line 3930: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'CR' "/etc/termcap", line 3931: terminal 'scoansi', HM aliased to kh "/etc/termcap", line 3931: terminal 'scoansi', EN aliased to @7 "/etc/termcap", line 3931: terminal 'scoansi', PD aliased to kN "/etc/termcap", line 3932: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'Gc' "/etc/termcap", line 3932: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'Gd' "/etc/termcap", line 3932: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'Gh' "/etc/termcap", line 3932: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'Gl' "/etc/termcap", line 3932: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'Gu' "/etc/termcap", line 3932: terminal 'scoansi', Unknown Capability - 'Gv' "/etc/termcap", line 3942: terminal 'screen', Unknown Capability - 'xv' "/etc/termcap", line 3943: terminal 'screen', Unknown Capability - 'LP' "/etc/termcap", line 3947: terminal 'screen', Unknown Capability - 'G0' for pages and pages... what is this? what did I do wrong? I was on the console, my TERM variable was set up right... I finally ended up going through all the packages by hand and installing the ones I wanted. are complaints/problems with package installtion suitable here? the sendmail package didn't install at *all* correctly and the defaults for all the included macros are, as far as paths are concerned, all botched up. I ended up installing smail instead texpect depends on tk for expecttk, but I don't have X and therefore not tk, but I want expect for scripts, so I hadda manuallly tell it to ignore that depends... should expect and expectk be separate packages? the version of lynx that's packaged up is not the latest version (it's 2.3.7, latest is 2.4.2, at least) Also, there's no packages for lots of popular stuff (Apache, NCSA httpd, etc) so where is doccon on how to make things into packages, and should it be the writer of the software that does the packaging or is it possible for me to package up stuff I want for easier installation/ deinstallation? Finally, is there any decent docco on the init.d system? why was it chosen over the old rc.local & etc. system? --Zachary
