Hi,
Thanks a lot, everything works fine now.
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:02:25PM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
>
> I do not know the clash that libpaperg has with the rp
> installer. The issue maybe a debconf one. Joey Hess,
> the maintainer of debconf has done a wonderful job of
> making it work with minimal break-down. Please upgrade
> your debconf first and then only do a libpaperg update.
>
It was indeed a debconf problem. After doing a
apt-get install debconf/unstable
I ran dselect with unstable in sources.list
Only a couple of packages more were installed.
Removed the unstable line from sources.list
Ran dselect and again chose the packages which were installed but scheduled for
removal (inelegant method, I agree).
Nothing was installed or removed.
Ran dselect and removed all traces of realplayer (purge)
Ran dselect again and installed realplayer installer, libpaperg, gv, gs etc
Configured realplayer when the box popped up.
Now everything is working great.
> Why did U remove the unstable line from the sources.list ?
> Let it remain, it does not create hassles for anyone. Note
> that unstable == what it means == as good as stable in
> Debian Land.
>
That seems so but I still want to get some work done on this machine.
> BTW, do not mix up apt-get with dselect. Be careful when
> you do a pending remove/configure under dselect. Under
> apt-get it is 'apt-get -f install'.
>
How do I find out what is going to be removed before it happens? How come apt and dpkg
not synchronised?
> Please try out a neat replacement for dselect called deity.
> There is another one called aptitude but deity is better.
> Be careful while upgrading apt when U install deity.
>
> Join up at debian-user, be prepared for a huge volume of mail.
> Better sign in for the debian-user-digest. You may get better
> help....;-)
Considering my experiences at the Debian-PPC list some time back, I'd better get a
bigger mailbox before doing something like that ;-)
Thanks a lot,
Indraneel
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