[nmglug] Mailman

[a_kaluta]

Received reply from: "Karl Hegbloom" <karlheg at laclinux.com> Saturday, June 
11, 2005 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [nmglug] MailmanFrom: "Karl Hegbloom" <karlheg at laclinux.com>
Karl;
As per recommendation I bought a copy of P.Sheers book and read your paper 
on "Aptitude" very informative,you should complete it perhaps it would 
become classic reading in the linux community. Thanks for the Good 
Suggestions. Anthony K
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Hegbloom" <karlheg at laclinux.com>
To: <nmglug at nmglug.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [nmglug] Mailman


> On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 11:46 -0600, a_kaluta wrote:
>> Following your instructions,all is well, until
>> cd mailman-[Tab]
>> [Tab] evokes: mailman-2.1.5
>>                       mailman_2.1.5-8diff.gz
>>                       mailman_2.1.5-8dsc
>>                       mailman_2.1.5-orig tar.gz
>> alternately substituting [Enter] for[Tab] evokes
>> "no such file or directory."
>> trying cd /etc/mailman changes directories, perhaps to no avail ?
>
> If you are using the Bash or Zsh shell, typing a unique prefix and
> pressing Tab should give you a completion list.  I just meant to convey
> that you should cd into the source directory, but I did not know the
> exact name of that directory, since it is suffixed with the version
> number and I don't know what version is current.
>
>> proceeding
>> dpkg-checkbuilddeps brings error: cannot read control file 
>> debian/control:
>> no such file or directory. also
>> appending [space] mailman. sans useful result.
>
> You must be inside of the source directory for it to work.  Then it can
> read and parse the debian/control file.
>
>> Karl will you offer any further helpful thoughts regarding this matter? ,
>> meanwhile, I continue an on-line searche,
>> Thank You.AnthonyK
>
> There are several documents that you can read that will teach you how to
> use the Linux command line more effectively.  Start a terminal emulator
> (gnome-terminal is good), and type:
>
> info readline
>
> ... and read the section on "command line editing".  Then try:
>
> info bash
>
> ... and learn a little about the Bash shell.  If those commands don't
> work, you may need to install the documentation.  I suspect that the
> readline info is there, but Bash may not be.  If it's not, install the
> 'bash-doc' package.
>
> You might also like to read:
>
> http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/
>
> ... and:
>
> http://web.pdx.edu/~hegbloom/Aptitude/tutorial-intro-aptitude.html
>
> To build most software in Debian, you'll need to install the
> 'build-essential' package, as well as anything missing that is reported
> by 'dpkg-checkbuilddeps'.
>
> -- 
> Karl Hegbloom <karlheg at laclinux.com>
> Los Alamos Computers, Technical Support
>
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