The perfect setup - 6.10 server Pge 4 software installation

[anotherbigal]

Hi
I am following the Edgy Eft setup instructions but when I got to page 4 (8) and tried to "Install some software" I got the error message
"E: Couldn't find package libd4.3-dev"
I copied and pasted the instructions so it is not a typo. Anyone got any thoughts please. I havn't gone any further as, being a very green newbie at this I have no idea how important this is and if any subsequent actionms depend on having that file installed

[till]

You seem to have a typo in your command, the package is named libdb4.3-dev and not libd4.3-dev

[anotherbigal]

Hi Till, Thank you for the advice. Do not know how that happened. As I said it was pasted in, but when I looked the original is as you say. Will it be ok to run the whole command again? i.e.

apt-get install binutils cpp cpp-4.0 fetchmail flex gcc gcc-4.0 libarchive-zip-perl libc6-dev libcompress-zlib-perl libdb4.3-dev libpcre3 libpopt-dev linux-kernel-headers lynx m4 make ncftp nmap openssl perl perl-modules unzip zip zlib1g-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool bison autotools-dev g++

Or should I just install that particulr part, and please, if so how?

[martinfst]

You can re-enter the same command. It will give a message about the already installed packages (if any)

[anotherbigal]

Hi again
Still working at page 4. When i ran apt-get install bind9 this came back

l# apt-get install bind9
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  bind9-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed
  bind9
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 300kB of archives.
After unpacking 741kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main bind9 1:9.3.2-2ubuntu3.1 [300kB]
Fetched 300kB in 2s (128kB/s)
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true returned an error code (100)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true

I think that is two error messages and now do not know if it is ok or not?

[martinfst]

It's not oke, but I noticed myself some weird Ubuntu update quircks yesterday. Please try the apt-get command again. Maybe a hickup in the repositories?

[anotherbigal]

I repeated the apt-get install quota again, then followed on with the remaining 5 instructions but still do not think all is as it should be. Here is the output.

# apt-get install quota
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
quota is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
root@server1:/home/bigal# touch /quota.user /quota.group
touch: cannot touch `/quota.user': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch `/quota.group': Permission denied
root@server1:/home/bigal# chmod 600 /quota.*
chmod: changing permissions of `/quota.group': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/quota.user': Operation not permitted
root@server1:/home/bigal# mount -o remount /
root@server1:/home/bigal# quotacheck -avugm
quotacheck: Scanning /dev/hda1 [/] done
quotacheck: Checked 1794 directories and 23170 files
root@server1:/home/bigal# quotaon -avug
quotaon: using //quota.group on /dev/hda1 [/]: Device or resource busy
quotaon: using //quota.user on /dev/hda1 [/]: Device or resource busy
root@server1:/home/

Can anyone help please?

[till]

Please make sure that you are logged in as root user.

[anotherbigal]

Thank you for the reply
I think I was logged in as root, but now, when I tried so I could repeat the commands This came up

login as: bigal
bigal@192.168.0.10's password:
Linux server1.example.com 2.6.17-10-server #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:29:32 UTC 2006 i686

The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
Last login: Tue Feb 13 09:25:37 2007 from 192.168.0.11
-bash: /usr/bin/lesspipe: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Not a directory
bigal@server1:~$ su
Password:
bash: /usr/bin/groups: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Not a directory
bash: /usr/bin/lesspipe: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Not a directory
root@server1:/home/bigal#

I appear to be logged in as root but now get these additional messages. I suppose this is the trouble with not knowing what I am doing, just following instructions and trying to learn from that.

[falko]

Did you accidentally delete these files?
I think the best is to do a clean re-install of the system.