[Klug-general] Problems with Ledger SMB

Mike Rentell michael.rentell at ntlworld.com
Mon Jan 26 17:24:14 UTC 2009



J D Freeman wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:48:05PM +0000, Mike Rentell wrote:
>> Thanks for that advice J, and my apologies about the text. I'll bear 
>> that in mind for the future.
>>
>> I tried what you said and apt-get replied with:
>>
>> Reading package lists.... done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... done
>> E: Couldn't find package libmime-lite-perl
>> V-Box Debian: /home/mick#
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> ~/$ apt-cache search libmime-lite-perl
> libmime-lite-perl - Perl5 module for convenient generation of MIME messages
> 
> It does exist. It may be that your apt repositories are not set quite right.
> 
> for now, wget the file from http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libm/libmime-lite-perl/libmime-lite-perl_3.01-8_all.deb and use dpkg -i to install it. 
> 
>> Any further advice would be helpful, but I am beginning to think there 
>> is an error in this installation of Debian 5.0 (beta) because it now 
>> throws up a message window after loading saying that there is a kernel 
>> error and asks to forward the details to some website. It says there is 
>> a log of details but doesn't tell me where and I'm not bright enough to 
>> know where to look.
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> /var/log/
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> It will be in there somewhere.
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>> Perhaps I should delete the virtual machine and completely reinstall Lenny.
> 
> No. Absolute NO!
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> Reinstall is the last resort.
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> J
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Well, I didn't seem to be getting on with debian 5.0 (beta) so I set up 
another VBox VM and installed debian 4.0 etch which I had used before 
and rather liked. That went OK and there is no kernel error on booting. 
All the updates have gone in so I then tried to get the ledgersmb.deb 
going. I seem to have unpacked it correctly in my /home/downloads 
directory and I then did the advised apt-get for all the dependencies. 
It didn't like postgresql-client-8.3 or 8.2 but it did put 8.1 in. So 
now I have got all the dependencies and the ledgersmb.deb unpacked.

But I am still baffled, I assumed there would be a 
configure/make/install to get it all going but there isn't. What's in my 
download directory are a lot of stuff in various directories named the 
same as in root. So I assumed that what was in them should go in the 
root directories of the same name. Done that. Now what?

I have looked all over the ledgersmb website for installation 
instructions (linux) but can find none.

Am I doing something stupid here or do they not want people to succeed?
Getting slightly exasperated now. But still willing to soldier on if 
there is some advice.

MikeR



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