I know that there are some Debian users on the list. I just installed Debian (sarge) for the first time last weekend. Since then, I have stumbled across a couple of programs that I had forgotten to install (kuickshow, xemacs, etc.) I used dselect to install them. No problems.
This morning, I realized that I was missing xpdf. dselect, choose xpdf, tell it to install packages required by (and recommended by) xpdf. Install. Now, I was in a meeting at the time, so I was only half paying attention to dselect. I'm pretty sure that all I did was to select xpdf and resolve through its dependecies. I remember seeing that one library package was being uninstalled because it is now deprecated and another one replaced it. When the install step ran, I saw that dselect was installing a bunch of KDE apps. I was running KDE at the time, but I'm not sure whether that could cause the problem I'm seeing. I have rebooted the machine since then. I can boot up and log into KDE fine. I use a Konsole and browse slashdot with Konqueror. I can open KMail, but when I attempt to access IMAP over SLL, I get an error dialog that says "Could not start process for newimap". This worked just before I installed xpdf. apt-get update apt-get upgrade says that I have 0 packages to install. Any ideas for troubleshooting? Does apt-get or dselect write logs somewhere about exactly which packages it is installing? I'd like to track down that deleted library package and figure out what might be broken. Thank, ---Tom -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
