On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 09:23:45AM -0600, Lorry Lee Strother wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:14:54PM -0600, Jim Crumley typed: > > > > Indeed. Well my last (?) idea is to remove wmmail and reinstall > > it. Make sure the reinstalled version is downloaded again in > > case it was corrupted during download or something funny. > > > Same error, but hey, I learned how to remove packages from my system. > Should I try installing it myself instead of apt-getting or won't that > make a difference? Nah, that shouldn't make a difference - apt-get uses dpkg to actually install the deb, so it would do the samething anyway. I'm stumped. Anyone who's been following this thread have any ideas? Oh, wait I thought of another thing to try which shouldn't make a difference - try building the package from source. Its easy with apt. First make sure that you deb-src line in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Something like: deb-src ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/debian sid main contrib non-free Then: apt-get update apt-get -b source wmmail That will download and attempt to compile wmmail. Depending on what you have installed on your system, the compilation may fail because your missing dependencies. Just apt-get install any build dependencies that it complains about - I had to install libproplist0-dev when I just tried this. After compiling the package you'll need to install it by hand: dpkg -i wmmail_0.64-5_i386.deb Anyway, its unlikely to make a differnce, but it is another neat apt trick. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Cookies are tasty! |Free Dmitry Sklyarov - http://faircopyright.org/