[LBo] Installing Postfix - halted

[Kojo Nyame]

It worked. This is so cool! I may still need some more help but I am
pressing along.

Thanks Anita.


On 6/1/07, Anita Lewis <a.lewis at linuxbasics.org> wrote:
>
> On 06/01/2007 09:07 PM Kojo Nyame wrote:
>
> >
> > apt-get install build-essential dpkg-dev fakeroot debhelper libgdbm-dev
> > libldap2-dev libpcre3-dev libssl-dev libsasl2-dev postgresql-dev
> po-debconf
> > dpatch libdb4.3-dev libmysqlclient15-dev
> >
> > Following the this command I got an error from executing the next
> commands:
> >
> > cd /usr/src
> > apt-get source postfix
> >
> > The error I get is : sh: dpkg-source: not found
> >                           unpack command 'dpkg-source -x postfix_2.3.8-
> 2.dsc'
> > failed
> >                            check if the 'dpkg-dev' package is installed.
> >                            child process failed.
>
> For some reason dpkg-dev did not install during that first apt-get
> install command.
>
> First I will assume that you ran that first command using sudo:
>
> sudo apt-get install <all those packages>
>
> If you did not use sudo, then none of them installed.
>
> If you did use sudo, then double check:
>
> dpkg -l |grep dpkg
>
> This should list dpkg-dev as being installed. If not, try installing it
> again with apt-get:
>
> sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev
>
> As you may have guessed, dpkg-source is a file contained in the dpkg-dev
> package.  It is not able to run, because it is not present, probably
> because dpkg-dev is not installed.
>
> Anita
>
>
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