Debian Bug report logs - #10363
infomagic CD Debian 1.2 dselect installs broken X11, Emacs, TeX

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: oas@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: infomagic CD Debian 1.2 dselect installs broken X11, Emacs, TeX

Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:17:51 +0200 (CEST)

I bought the infomagic 6 CD Linux Developer's Resource and installed
Debian successfully on my second SCSI disk.  The Debian installation
routine impressed me as the most powerful I have seen in years of
Linux use: the gnu enlightening user interface for the informational
enlightenment movement to which I have been trying to contribute these
years.

However the DSelect utility was a complete failure.  The Select option
is not only organized in an unenlightening manner (offering no way to
navigate between hierarchy nodes, allowing only movement at the line
level in a multipage list), but it also fails to do its basic work.
Even when choosing to install "everything", dselect fails to install
such basic packages as TeX, Emacs and X11.  Only basic shell and
network utilities work.

Even after several attempts at manually installing X11, X related
programs like XF86config and Emacs don't start, because X libraries
like libXmu and libXaw are not found.  In fact the infomagic debian
disk seems to lack several packages like xlib6 (it has only
rex-fixed/binary-i386/x11/xlib6-dev_3.2-1.deb), netpbm, pgp and more.

Also, the different versions of tcl-tk (tcl7.4 7.5 7.6 tk 4.0 4.1 4.2)
that are required by some packages are permanently in conflict with
each other and make the installation process break.
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Message #10 received at 10363@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen)

To: 10363@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#10363: infomagic CD Debian 1.2 dselect installs broken X11, Emacs, TeX

Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 21:44:17 +0200

On Jun 5, PILCH Hartmut wrote
> I bought the infomagic 6 CD Linux Developer's Resource and installed
> Debian successfully on my second SCSI disk. 

Some of the problems you describe seem to be Infomagic-related; can you
please give the precise date of the CDs?

> Even when choosing to install "everything", dselect fails to install
> such basic packages as TeX, Emacs and X11.  Only basic shell and
> network utilities work.

Most of this comes from the X problem (TeX depends on Metafont, which is
linked against X libraries).

> Even after several attempts at manually installing X11, X related
> programs like XF86config and Emacs don't start, because X libraries
> like libXmu and libXaw are not found.

You state you have a 1.2 CD; in early versions of 1.2, X install was broken
because the X libraries weren't put in the dynamic linker's search path.
To fix this, add a line "/usr/X11R6/lib" to /etc/ld.so.conf and run
"ldconfig". Then try "dpkg --pending --configure", and do "dpkg --audit" or
"dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii'" to see what the remaining problems are.

> In fact the infomagic debian disk seems to lack several packages like
> xlib6 (it has only rex-fixed/binary-i386/x11/xlib6-dev_3.2-1.deb), 
> netpbm,

netpbm is in the "non-free" section of the FTP site; as some non-free
packages may not be put on CD, most CD vendors tend to leave the whole of
non-free off their CDs. 

The best chance of getting non-free and contrib packages on CD is to get a
CD from a contributing vendor; see <URL:http://www.debian.org/vendors.html>.
 
> pgp and more.

PGP is available from Debian-non-US FTP sites; see
<URL:ftp://ftp.debian.org/README.pgp> for details.

Hope this helps,
Ray
-- 
ART  A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. 
I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking 
his name in vain. 
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan 

Message #17 received at 10363@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: apharris@burrito.onshore.com (Adam P. Harris)

To: 10363@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [David R Baker <dabaker@InfoAve.Net>] dpkg bug 10363

Date: 25 Jun 1998 15:57:37 -0400

This bug should probably be closed.
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.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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Hi,

I am a debian user not developer.  I saw a reference to this bug
in the debian web mail archives.  The bug report was dated 6/97.
I believe this refers to the same 4/97 Info Magick set I purchased.
For whatever reason, in addition to ~100 missing symbolic links,
there were 7 files totally missing.  One was the xlib deb package.
Using the packages file on the cd, I constructed a subtree on my disk
with symbolic links having the pathnames in the packages file and
linked to either the real file on the cd or for the missing 7 on
my disk.  Using this, debian 1.2 installed fine.  I think dpkg can
be forgiven not successfully installing a non existant file.

This is sent in hopes that it helps you close this bug.

I like your work!


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