Re: [jornada] Various Debian issues

The Dillo issue is strange, it works with no problems for me (on the
debian sarge "testing" image). Also, maybe it would be good to put a
link to the sarge image on Rafael Diniz's page, together with debian
potato/woody images.
Regards,

Matthis

On 29 Sep 2005, at 16:27, Tom Lohdan wrote:

> Had that issue as well…
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> I used the –no-upgrade option and it works fine. I have managed to
> get SSH on it, which is handy for long install sessions, Dillo
> installed but when I run it, it just opens a window and closes
> again, didn’t look further into it. I’ve also change the Window
> Manager to Ice, which seems to work well. I’m going 2.6 shortly in
> an attempt to get the iBurst card working.
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> If possible tar (backup your card often) before installs, it’s
> handy to rollback rather than reinstalling everything.
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> Stay away from using dselect and just command line everything; you
> can apt-cache search packagename to find things.
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> PPPTP-Linux (Client) and PPPTPD (Server) are in my cache list of
> packages.
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jornada-bounces_at_handhelds.org [mailto:jornada-
> bounces_at_handhelds.org] On Behalf Of Colin Sauze
> Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2005 8:49 AM
> To: jornada_at_handhelds.org
> Subject: [jornada] Various Debian issues
>
>
>
> I have just tried Debian on my Jornada and have had a few issues:
>
> When I try to install quite a few programs (SSH, Dillo, gaim) with
> apt-get it tells me it needs to install e2fsprogs, e2fslibs, libc6
> and sysvinit. However when I try to install these I get the message:
>
> "This installation run will require temporarily removing the
> essential package e2fsprogrs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop.
> This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the
> APT::Force-LoopBreak option"
>
> Anyone tried running with the APT::Force-LoopBreak option, does it
> cause any problems?
>
> I'm also trying to install PPTP support, but can't seem to find the
> package using apt-get. Anyone managed to install it? I think I also
> need some kernel modules for it to work.
>
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Received on Thu Sep 29 2005 - 03:38:22 EDT