At 3:20 pm, Monday, March 31 2003, Mick Boda mumbled: > 3. I recieve the following message from apt-get re sound > > Sorry, alsa-base is already the newest version. Okay. You probably want the latest alsa-base, too. (Which is currently 0.9.2-1)
> E: Couldn't find package alsa-modules-2.4.20-i386 > Yes, I know. The packages are currently in Incoming, awaiting on the ftp-masters. Grab the .deb from http://people.debian.org/~stevenk/alsa and install it. > I ran apt-get install snd, which appearred to do something, but Irecieve > the following error messages running modprobe.... Heh, snd is probably not the package you're after. > 5. Irritatingly, I recieve the following error message > > 1 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Setting up diald (0.99.4-5) ... > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome > debconf: (Unable to load Gnome -- is libgnome-perl installed?) > debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog > Starting diald: fifo-created dpkg: error processing diald (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > diald > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > I didn't want diald, the machine access then internet through a server. > I deselected dialup when I was setting up the system, but apt-get must > have fetched it anyway. > Run 'dpkg -P diald' as root. It looks to be in a fairly bad state, so you have have to do evil things. > Also, I thought gnome would be the front-end as it where for Xwindows, > it appears that I've selected it for apt-get, how do I change this back > to dialog. > 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' as root. Cheers, -- Steve <asuffield> who's daft idea was this 'government' thing anyway? you'd have to be pretty out of it to think that creating an organisation to repeatedly shaft everybody in the country was a good idea -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
