[Klug-general] Problems with Ledger SMB

[J D Freeman]

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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 05:24:07PM +0000, Mike Rentell wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that makes sense. Well done on getting that lot sorted.

> 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?

What exactly did you do to the .deb from ledgersmb? if the file is a .deb
file, then all you should need to do is: dpkg -i ledgersmb_1.2.17-1_all.deb

There is no unpacking involved, this isn't a tar file.

> 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.

I am afriad to say I think it is more likely the former.

J
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