On Wed, 04 Aug 1999, your Nibs wrote:
>Well I found the problem, package bin86 wasn't installed which was
>fouling up the works. Thanks for the NON-help that I got from this list.
Since Mr. Smith has so thoughtfully closed the thread he prompted with his
inane banter, I won't cover his rather dubious ancestry in further detail here.
Instead, if the same sort of problem should afflict someone else, try the
following steps before insulting the rather nice group of people that inhabit
this list. As root;
1. Mount the Mandrake installation tree (at, for example, /mnt/cdrom).
2. cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS
3. rpm -qipl * >~/tempfile
4. Load "tempfile" into your favorite editor and search for the filename in
question. Or use sed and awk. Or write a Perl script. I'm lazy, so I
used Jed.
5. Look a few lines above for the package header; install this
package.
I believe this took almost 25 seconds from start to finish, which would place
it firmly between the asking of the question and the prompt response some kind
reader gave an hour later. You could write the whole thing up as about a three
line Perl script, mount, search, find and install all in one, but that might
take as long as five minutes.
As for people like Mr. Smith, since this list is a free collection of volunteers
and NOT the sole source of support for the product, they should probably buy the
PowerPack and yell at the phone support people who are at least paid to put up
with it. Having dealt all too often with tech support at commercial
enterprises in the past, I go out of my way to NOT insult the sort of techies
that inhabit these lists. Dear Old Al was, of course, an exception, though I
trust a fairly minor one at best. And I would have the grace to be embarrassed
by my comments of yesterday, but since I meant them, why bother?
--
Lee Burnside -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.phys.ttu.edu/~tljlb/
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
--The Bard
