package installation problem

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 07:07:35 PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> That scares me. Might have to try that though. I did try an apt-get 
> install modutils using both the -f and the --reinstall options, with no 
> results, but I did not try purging or removing it first. The man page 
> says modules-init-tools replaces all or most of modutils, but when I 
> look at the contents of those packages, there is a hell of a lot more to 
> modutils than there is to modules-init-tools, so that makes me a little 
> gun shy about just removing it.

You might need to hang on to modutils if you run pre-2.6 kernels, but I
just resolved the same problem by removing modutils and then confirmed
that I can still add and remove modules just fine. The big difference
between modutils and module-init-tools as far as I can tell (aside from
the latter working with the .ko extensions) is that modutils has a lot
more support for the automatic loading of modules which doesn't seem to
be working in a 2.6.x kernel.

The other alternative is just to wait until tomorrow and upgrade again.
The debian guys will most likely have it fixed by then. That's the
beauty of unstable, it may have bugs, but when found they sure get fixed
fast 90% of the time. Sometimes while I was running testing I had to
wait a couple weeks for bug fixes to propogate down through unstable.
There have been many attempts to come up with a better naming system for
the three debian distros which would be more user friendly, but all have
caused more confusion than they prevented.

- -- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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