[Linux-disciples] apt-get problems

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 06:29:12PM -0400, Nirmal Trivedi wrote:
> Where should I save the tarball and unpack it? And then what should I do? Rn
> ./configure?

It'll create a usr directory underneath wherever you unpack
it. So unpack it someplace convenient, like ~/temp/ , then
go into ~/temp/usr/ and copy all the files out of there into
their proper locations. So, e.g., ~/temp/usr/sbin/foo will
get copied into /usr/sbin/ .

Come to think of it, I'm not sure whether this dpkg tarball
will mess you up even more; I'm running unstable dpkg, and
I'm not sure what you have on your end. If I were you, I
might want to hear from the folks on this list who are wiser
than I am.

> On another note, fetchmail stopped retreiving messages for some reason. 

I wish I could help you there, but I'm not sure why that's
happening.

-- 
``[Y]ou know as well as we do that right, as the world
  goes, is only in question between equals in power,
  while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer
  what they must.''
 -http://crookedtimber.org/archives/001691.html