Two debian questions

[Pyrosophy]

I'm very impressed with Debian after a long honeymoon with Mandrake, so I'm thinking about a divorce. Anyway, running into a couple problems:

1. I tried using Craig's sources.list from http://www.bsu-hog.org/sources.list, but when I did 'apt-get update', I received many error messages about 'something wicked happened resolving server x.x.com'. Is this normal?

2. I'm trying to get usb support, and the easiest way seems to be via the 2.4 kernel (if there's any easier way from 2.2.17, let me know). But when I do 'make menuconfig' it claims libncurses isn't present. I check dselect and it seems to be loaded. I could always go the 'make config' route, but that tends to make me a bit seasick. Any ideas?

I'm running woody, recently upgraded from potato by changing all the instances of 'potato' in the original sources.list to 'woody'.

Thanks all!
Pyro

[Muzzafarath]

2. 2.2.18?
3. Compile libncurses yourself or use make xconfig?

[Skroob]

#1 Yeah thats normal for at least one or a few of the sites(I think I ended up commenting it/them out)

#2 I'm not sure why it doesn't work for you but you can try 'make xconfig' Thats what I use, it works well.

[Craig McPherson]

1. No, that's not normal. Is your Internet connection working normally? Did you try commenting out the servers that you were getting that warning for, or was it for all of them? There's a chance one or two were just down, although I don't recall ever seeing that exact error.

2. apt-get install these packages:

libncurses4
libncurses5
ncurses-base
ncurses-bin
ncurses-term
libncurses5-dev
ncurses3.4

You don't need to have all of those installed, but you need to have some of them installed, and I don't know which are required so you might as well go ahead and install them all.

Good luck.

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[This message has been edited by Craig McPherson (edited 19 January 2001).]

[Pyrosophy]

Wow, you guys rock (perhaps 'stone' is more appropriate?).

I'm still not sure exactly what was going on with the sources.list. My internet connection appears to be working fine, but I received the 'something wicked' error on quite a few sites, so probably an anomaly of my upgrade (which seemed to go well) or an internet hiccup. Then again, it was last night @ 3am, so I'll try it again.

I'll now go and check that all the ncurses files are installed, but I did search through dselect and made sure that everything with 'ncurses' was installed without conflicts.

It's a really interesting circle of problems: I need to get a kernel with USB support so I can get my mouse working, so I can run X. That sort of precludes using xconfig. On the other hand, I can't recompile the kernel without this whole ncurses bit (sans seasickness).

Thanks again -- Pyro

[Pyrosophy]

Ok all, it turns out the internet connection wasn't working well at all -- I think I nixed it when trying to install a 2.2.18 kernel image via dselect. It must have installed the kernel image without all the modules I need.

In the process of getting the old kernel back, I hosed the system -- so I'll fix ncurses in the next install.

Thanks again. You've got to give someone credit for thinking up the 'something wicked' error message though. That's even better than 'illegal operation'. If grandma was calling the cops when she got illegal operations, she must have to go confess her sins upon having something wicked happening http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif.

Pyro