[iPAQ] RE: [Familiar] ipkg teething pains - solved

From: AFASA Reinier Mostert <Reinier.a.t.afa.co.za>
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 06:28:49 EST

OK, I RTFS'ed, and now it is working - I did not have a destination set
in ipkg.conf. For now I'm supplying "-d /" on the command line, cause
adding "dest /" to the conf file did not help.

later
reinier

-----Original Message-----
From: Reinier Mostert [mailto:reinier.mostert@bigfoot.com]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 1:43 AM
To: Erez Doron
Cc: familiar; ipaq@handhelds.org
Subject: Re: [Familiar] ipkg teething pains

Hi all,

I also tried the suggestion below, but got the same error. Any more
ideas?

Thanx
reinier

On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 09:33, Erez Doron wrote:
> I also encountered that bug with some of the packages,
>
> try:
> cd /tmp
> ipkg install ./apmd_3.0final-1-fam2_arm.ipk
>
> regards
> erez.
>
> On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 03:49, Reinier Mostert wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have linux booting on my 3850, and I can login. I have ppp up as
> > well, but have downloaded a number of packages locally, and have
> > zmodem'ed them over to /tmp. When I try to install them, I get:
> >
> > # ipkg install
> > /tmp/apmd_3.0final-1-fam2_arm.ipk
> > ipkg_install_file: ERROR: File not found
> >
> > However, the file is there:
> > # ls -l /tmp/apmd*
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 7085 Feb 2 2002
> > /tmp/apmd_3.0final-1-fam2_arm.ipk
> >
> > Any ideas??
> > reinier
> >
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