Re: Installing debian 1.2 from december 1996 InfoMagic 6 CD set
Laurent: To fix the broken packages add /usr/X11R6/lib to your /etc/ld.so.config file and run ldconfig as root. You should then be able to install the 3 tex packages that break. MAKEDEV is broken on the December 1996 release. You can download the fixed makedev package from the debian ftp site and install it separately. (dpkg --install package_name.deb) I put all the 'fixed' packages in a separate directory and point the local directory to it when running dselect. This seems to work pretty well. (You need to download the Packages.gz file which describes the upgraded packages to make this work) Hope this helps, Bernt. I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december 1996. I've decided to install Debian from it but a bunch of packages can't configure after installation in particular LaTeX (and BTW lot of related packages too...) an Pari which were of particular interest to me. After reading carefully the doc I made an other attemp with similar results. So I reformatted my disk an reinstalled Debian with just the default preselected and mc with libgpm. (I had to do mknod in /dev to add support to my Mitsumi FX001D CD ROM but it wasn't a problem). However there's still 3 unconfigured packages... (texbin, psfnss and an other I've forgotten) I added modules vfat, ppp, lp, serial lines. I can access Internet from Win95 (for the moment I still don't have configure linux to access my ISP) I can only have access to a 100MB partition readable both by debian an Win95 (as I didn't want to give much disk space to win95 I used drivespace on it so now it' not readable from linux... but on the other hand it occupies only 350MB out of 1993) I've copied the binaries from the CD to an ext2fs 450MB partition I would like to install a working debian with no unconfigurable packages but I DO NOT wish to download the whole debian because under Win95 it takes me about an hour to download 10MB via RTC... So what should I download to fix this apparently bad organised CD. If it can help, I have OS2 warp 3 installed on this machine and I can install either Slackware or RedHat coming from the same 6 CD set in a separate partition. I hope I've included enough details to get some help, but if you're missing some informations, I can answer many questions. -- Bernt T. Hansen Norang Consulting Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems 235 Bellamy Road North phone: (416)431-6216 Analyst Scarborough, Ontario fax: (416)431-2617 Canada M1J-2L7
Re: Installing debian 1.2 from december 1996 InfoMagic 6 CD set
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december 1996. I've decided to install Debian from it but a bunch of packages can't configure after installation Let me guess.. you installed all of the packages the first time you ran dselect. That got me a couple of times. So I reformatted my disk an reinstalled Debian with just the default preselected and mc with libgpm. OK; now just install the packages you want, a couple at a time. (I had to do mknod in /dev to add support to my Mitsumi FX001D CD ROM but it wasn't a problem). However there's still 3 unconfigured packages... (texbin, psfnss and an other I've forgotten) So what should I download to fix this apparently bad organised CD. The problem isn't in the CD; the install utility doesn't quite catch all the dependencies the first time through. If you re-run the install part of dselect a couple of times, everything should get installed. (The only time that this didn't work for me was when perl died on me, and some parts of dselect didn't work.)
Re: Installing debian 1.2 from december 1996 InfoMagic 6 CD set
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: So what should I download to fix this apparently bad organised CD. I have TRI-LINUX from Linux Software Labs (I believe) and I had the same problem (with the same three packages). Everything seems to work fine and I saw the error messages but they went by too fast (I know the Shift-PageUp but it was still too far back). Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMy2t1kWiM58YroBNAQGzAQf9F6RGMHWBlUouoOTCbg6B2JtQ7lU8B9C+ olQhFUCezMJ9ivHidNiYHR9yOd8Jr6ALYx8sypbRqWaCb2hBD45SMgm89NiPFNO9 dfPnbKWs55PN8FXu1zmGvw2csAHHlp/3BLRIxKQdNggCPt5f227eMcgAiHysbF/l S9eSMIEmqWLXnTiOQJ/T9ghxz1Tf4TLXy2dFTt494Ms60C1c7arAaNO9zeoUh52W jhLqgs7YWMbhJDjhqU55nqNruKgnf4CEvJeGw8LnJ9GEOm+UHY09+kDbAkx7zaO+ dfB3F/jpZiOgwzEHFtRz7SIy0dM0n4/fkJBdBaZ3mHFwP3pGAJTtKQ== =x7mH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Installing debian 1.2 from december 1996 InfoMagic 6 CD set
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december 1996. .. So what should I download to fix this apparently bad organised CD. This is unfortunately a FAQ. Someone was kind enough to write a little document about it. Point your browser to: http://ece.wpi.edu/~rulnick/GlinuX/debian-1.2-faq.html It is a list of problems and fixes for the 1.2 distribution on the Infomagic december 96 6 CD set. Hope this will get it right for you.. Have fun, Cheers, Joost
