Re: [Sheflug] Re: Debian

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 02:06:56PM +0100, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Apt-get refused to recognise the update CD in /dev/cdrom.  So, I had 
> to run update with a single package at time in Kpackage.  That took 
> three hours for Quanta.  All the error messages say that either 
> dselect crashed or apt-get refused to connect to the update CD 
> because there isn't a main or contrib folder on the CD.  When I told 
> it what to do it just ignored me and threw me out.

	apt-cdrom add with the CD in the CD tray should add that CD
without a problem. It has always worked for me.

> I then tried to change /etc/apt and included a line which is "deb 
> file:/dev/cdrom" .   The error message that came back said "E: 
> Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list"  So, if anyone 
> can help me to get that right I'd really appreciate it.

	If you use apt-cdrom you don't need to mess about with the apt
file at all. At any ratte, you can't point to a device, you'd have to
point to a directory where the CD-ROM would be mounted (in Debian,
usually /cdrom). And then you need to specify the version of debian and
all that stuff. 

	Anyway, use apt-cdrom. Does exactly what you want to do (when
you install Debian, it tells you about its existance).

> I now found when I try to compile Komba that I get the following 
> error message at the bottom of the ./configure script ...
> 
> "Checking for KDE ... configure: error:
> in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed.  This 
> will fail.  So, check this please and use another prefix !"
> 
> Anyone know what that means ? Means nothing to me at all.  I did 
> './configure' to start the compile.

	It means that you haven't got the KDE library headers installed
:-) Presumably you want to install kdelibs-dev and a host of other dev
packages (or ftp it over from my previous message).

José
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