Re: Help installing debian Other packages
Hi all, I have found out that I am having a problem downloading the file from the ftp site (sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/buzz/msdos-i386), but I don't know how to fix it. If I click on the file (using Netscape Navigator), I get the binary garbage written out to my screen. If I right click on the file icon, and use the Save Link As.. option, I can save it to my hard disk. The problem is that it is not saving this in a binary format. I can go to the Netscape options (Options | General Preferences... | helpers) and add in the deb extention to the application/x-compress entry but this still doesn't work. I went through compuserve and retrieved the same file using their ftp menu and then compared them (saved the same file with a different name) doing a DOS command fc win95tmp.deb cmpsvtmp.deb /b and they are way different. I can copy them both to diskette and the one that I downloaded from compuserve will work but the other one won't. What is wrong here? Regards, -- --- Wayne Richardson Advanced Software Engineer 3M Health Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Life is not a spectator sport... --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help installing debian Other packages
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Wayne Richardson wrote: I can download these packages from the internet from my windows '95 machine and then transfer them to the Linux system using a diskette. When I try to run dpkg on these files I get errors. Are you *certain* that you are transferring them in BINARY mode? Do you have your floppy drive mounted so that it does automatic *nix-DOS conversion? (It shouldn't.) | This is OFFICIAL WRITTEN notification that I want to be REMOVED | | from ALL commercial mailing lists. EVERY message sent from this | | account has had this request posted. ALL UNSOLICITED ADVERTISEMENTS | | SENT TO THIS ACCOUNT ARE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL (U.S.) LAW.| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help installing debian Other packages
Hi all, I have installed the Debian linux system on my system but am now having problems installing other packages. I can download these packages from the internet from my windows '95 machine and then transfer them to the Linux system using a diskette. When I try to run dpkg on these files I get errors. For example, I have transferred the gzip-1_2_4-10.deb file to the Debian Linux system and now want to install it. I can issue the following command line: dpkg --install gzip-1_2_4-10.deb I then get the following error: dpkg-deb: 'gzip-1_2_4-10.deb' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing dpkg_1_2_11elf.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: gzip-1_2_4-10.deb I am pretty sure that it is a valid binary file because I have downloaded other binary files the same way and have had no problems with them. I have also tried installing a number of other debian packages and get the same error. Is there anything special that I need to do with these debian packages before I try to install them? What am I doing wrong? TIA, P.S. I am pretty new to this UNIX game (coming from wintel programming), so I would appreciate it if you could detail your explanations. --- Wayne Richardson Advanced Software Engineer 3M Health Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Life is not a spectator sport... --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
