Subject: texbin postinst in unstable fails

From: [email-masked] (Miro Torrielli)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:52:52 +0200 (MET DST)

I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to
retrieve all necessary packages, from stable & unstable.
Firstly, I noticed that when installing a large number of
packages on the system, the unpacking of some of them fail,
complaining that some lib or another is missing. This has
already happened twice before, on two other machines.

Second, and for the first time, texbin postinst fails, 
complaining of missing man.fmt. I had to manually comment
out the postinst script.

Finally, elm, in this new installation, has no ispell option
in mailing menu, whereas on my other machines it does.

Help would be appreciated.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 23:15 EDT

Miro Torrielli writes:
  Miro>  I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to retrieve
  Miro> all necessary packages, from stable & unstable.  Firstly, I noticed
  Miro> that when installing a large number of packages on the system, the
  Miro> unpacking of some of them fail, complaining that some lib or another
  Miro> is missing. This has already happened twice before, on two other
  Miro> machines.

Il m'est impossible de voir ce que a echoue. Plus de detail?

  Miro> Second, and for the first time, texbin postinst fails, complaining of
  Miro> missing man.fmt. I had to manually comment out the postinst script.

C'est manfnt.mf. Install mfbasfnt-1.0-3 de "buzz-fixed" et ca ira. 

  Miro> Finally, elm, in this new installation, has no ispell option in
  Miro> mailing menu, whereas on my other machines it does.

Aucune idee, je n'utilise pas elm (mais emacs avec vm).

Amities, Dirk 

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From: [email-masked] (Miro Torrielli)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:10:26 +0200 (MET DST)

> C'est manfnt.mf. Install mfbasfnt-1.0-3 de "buzz-fixed" et ca ira. 

Merci! Ca marche maintenant.

Translation: Thanks, now it works :-)

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From: Antoine Reid <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:27:41 -0400 (EDT)

> already happened twice before, on two other machines.

happened here too, on a newly mke2fs'ed box, with only pppd and a few net
packages installed, using dpkg-ftpd, using rex.
 
also, the dircolors included in the util-linux (or so..) package doesn't
have the -z option anymore (for zsh). 

thanx, 
Antoine Reid

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 16:54:56 +0200 (MET DST)

> > C'est manfnt.mf. Install mfbasfnt-1.0-3 de "buzz-fixed" et ca ira. 

On peut installer mfbasfnt-1.0-7 aussi, mais c'est dans Incoming maintenant.
One can also install mfbasfnt-1.0-7, but it is in Incoming right now.

> Translation: Thanks, now it works :-)

Ne rien.
Niets te danken.

Erick