Subject: Re: linux emu base file missing from ftp site?
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Paul \(NCC/CS\) <pts@bom.gov.au>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/28/2001 12:38:16
Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> > > However when when I get up to suse-x11 it complains that
> > > I haven't installed "suse_base-6.4.tgz" . This is because I
> > > installed suse_base-6.4nb2.tgz. This is because the nb2 one
> > > was the only one available on the ftp site.
>
> I have replaced the suse_x11-6.4.tgz on ftp.netbsd.org with a newer one
> that's depending properly on suse_x11>=6.4. Please install this one, which
> will work with suse_base-6.4nb2:
>
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hubertf  hubertf  1004844 Feb 27 16:59 suse_x11-6.4.tgz
>

Hubert,

thankyou, very much. However the next 2:
suse_compat-6.4
suse_libc5-6.4

also complain about needing 6.4.tgz and not 6.4nb2.

Could you mod these as well?

Presently I'm trying to use -f to force install anyway.
Linux Netscape seems happy.
Haven't tried SO yet.

cheers,
Paul.







>
> > > Where is "suse_base-6.4.tgz?"
>
> 6.4 was removed due to some security problem. 6.4nb2 is the desired
> version you should use.
>
> > > PS I've got to get star office working because I'm at work
> > > and If I can't get it working "they" will make me use
> > > windoze:(
>
> Good luck! (I've never used SO; I'm a FrameMaker child, but then that
> can't read Word documents)
>
>  - Hubert
>
> --
> Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>

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Paul   (pts@bom.gov.au)
National Climate Centre
Australian Bureau Of Meteorology
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