Ged, thank you for the reply. But it leaves questions in my mind. On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 02:04:05PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> >Installation of Jessie 1.0.1 AMD64 went well. > > Considering what you write below, I'm not entirely convinced. :) > > >I did not install desktop packages during install, but instead xorg > >afterwards along with a lot of other packages. > > This starts to look like Pilot Error, but in fairness I suspect that > what you're trying to do might also be beyond the capacity of the > system that you're trying to do it with at this stage in its life. > Devuan Jessie is, in software terms, rather new. If you stress the > package installation you can expect to break it in interesting ways, > which may make recovery difficult if you're not an expert. I have an installation routine I've used since Lenny and perhaps even Etch. I stuck to it, and generally accepts defaults. The system is a bit old (3 yrs), but has 32 G RAM and 1 T disks. It should be able to endure an install. Don't know what it means to "stress" package installation. It's the same set of packages I had not problem installing on earlier versions of Debian. Are you suggesting that Devuan Jessie might have some installation weaknesses not present in Debian Jessie? > >I rebooted, and now I can't run any executable. ... > > $ aptitude search xorg > > -bash: /usr/bin/aptitude: No such file or directory > >... > >No idea what happened. The executables are in PATH. ... > > The symptoms look to me like those of a broken library setup, I think > you have somehow mixed 32-bit and 64-bit packages. Perhaps you should > start the installation again without trying anything, er, creative. :) How can a package installation damage existing libraries? How is it possible to mix 32-bit and 64-bit if one follows the installer's defaults? I installed packages from the US Devuan repository. Perhaps I should instead have installed them from my USB key DVD ISO. I'll try that when I have the time. > Incidentally mailing list etiquette suggests replies on-list, not > private replies, to list posts. That way everyone can benefit. I'm > not upset or offended by off-list replies but my mail server will now > gently reject them as a reminder to those who forget the conventions. My apologies, I didn't see that you were answering my question off list. Haines _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng