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Hello fellow debians I was wondering if there was anyone working on putting enlightenment into a deb If there already is one... I apologize Some how I must have missed it anyone interested in looking at a very cool window manager check out

Re: A Basic Question

On 03-Jul-97 Will Lowe wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Alex Fan wrote: Is Debian a Linux distribution, just like Slackware and Radhat? Well, yes, it's a distribution. We'd like to think that it's somewhat nicer than Slackware and Redhat, tho :) . And IMHO it is ;-) DEBIAN the best LINUX

I really need some help

Ok I've narrowed my dpkg problem down to the following files I asked before if some would zip up there info directory... and recieved no responces... which is understandable to say the least I was asking a hugh favour But I have gotten it down to the following files So please please please

RE: determining serial link speed?

On 01-Jul-97 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi! Is there any easy way to find out, what speed my modem connected to the ISP? (using ppp chat on Debian Linux m68k Amiga). I want to be sure that it connected at 28800 baud and not at 14400. /var/log/ppp.log should tell what the connect speed was

Update on can't Install any deb's

Hello fellow Debian users I found the problem as to why I get 'empty filename' and the database that is read. its the /var/lib/dpkg/info where thats the info on all deb's I think So what I have since done is move the offending files out of there.:-) but of course that got me only thourgh

Re: help with dselect again plz

On 25-Jun-97 joost witteveen wrote: Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: Installing files... (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/fl oat bg_1.0-6.deb (--install): files list file for package `mgetty-fax' contains empty filename Errors were

Still can't install any deb's

I recieve the following error no matter what I try to install I'm in desperate need of help my system is not configed properly Please help Dragon# dpkg -i mgetty-fax_1.1.2-1.deb (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing mgetty-fax_1.1.2-1.deb (--install): files list file for package

help with dselect again plz

Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: Installing files... (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/float bg_1.0-6.deb (--install): files list file for package `mgetty-fax' contains empty filename Errors were encountered while processing:

Re: available file

you don't need the available file. The status of your system is in status. Just remove the available file, and fire up dselect. Phil. Hi Phil, thanx for the tip. But I recieved the following error(s) When I did as you suggested. I really need a solution as at the present time I can't add any