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.

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