The message f93d0142ebea4fc4a7ef4b1fc72e4b36@bouncing.localnet from MJ Ray mjr@dsl.pipex.com contains these words:
On 2004-10-11 16:35:51 +0100 Anthony Anson tony.anson@zetnet.co.uk wrote:
there's another green scrawl of - if not death, then palpable ill-health which says: 'Error: unable to find the winesetup tool. Please install the winesetuptk debian package.'
To install that: open a terminal,
Ah. There's a promble here - the intended Win 2000 HDD is in the caddy and the installation has fallen over for the third time. (each at a different place)
Do I abort it and waste another half a day, or wait until my Winguru answers my emu?
Answers on the back of a twenty pound note, please.
In the last item I did intend to illustrate my memorable deficiencies by reminding you that when I got the box to Syleham, I'd forgotten my login, or password, or more likely, both.
But I forgot.
run the command "su -" enter your root password at the prompt all being well, you should have a prompt ending # to show you are root run the command "apt-get install winesetuptk" ...and with any luck, apt-get will ask for the appropriate CD(s) and do its thing. If this doesn't work, post the exact error and someone should be able to take it from there.
Beware people emailing advice.
Quite. And assuming that works, and the requisite file is retrieved and applied, how do I get back to something I know how to deal with (FSVO know how), such as Gnome?
Even if you think I am me, I might be my evil double.
My idea of an evil double is someone who doubles you into game when you're holding a Yarborough...
In general, a quick look at man for each command is a very good idea ("man su" and "man apt-get"), for example: to make sure that it doesn't say something obviously bad, like apt-get is a command for Automatic Pig Transfer and your house will be suddenly filled with livestock, or other horrors.
Ah, all good stuff. Thanks. I'll bear it in mind. Will anything good happen if I type "lunch-get" or perhaps "bint-get"? (Since lunch is nearly done...)
Or is 'get' only a junior demon-summoning command?