[MINC-development] mni_autoreg/debian!

Andrew Janke Andrew Janke <a.janke@gmail.com>
Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:46:20 -0400


Najma, 

As per steve.

If you choose to use binary packages over source packages you must use
them all the way.  I suspect mni_autoreg didn't install as the minc
package wasn't installed..

a

On 19/07/05, Steve M. Robbins <steven.robbins@videotron.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:00:13PM -0400, Najmeh Khalili M. wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to install the debain packages I got from
> > packages.bic.mni.mcgill.ca.
> >
> > Upon
> >
> > dpkg --install mni-autoreg-model-1.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb
> >                mni-models-average305-lin-1.0-linux-2.6-intel.deb
> >                mni-models-colin27-lin-1.0-linux-2.6-intel.deb
> >                mni-models-icbm152-lin-1.0-linux-2.6-intel.deb
> >
> > I get a complaint about mni_autoreg not installed. Well, as far as I can
> > tell, it IS installed.
> 
> It sounds like "dpkg" disagrees with you ;-)
> 
> You can check whether Debian believes the package to be installed
> using:
> 
>         dpkg --list '*mni*'
> 
> 
> 
> > so I wonder what this means:
> 
> The error you quoted means that mni_autoreg is not installed as far as
> Debian is concerned.
> 
> 
> > (I tried two flavors:
> > mni-autoreg-0.98s-linux-2.6-intel.deb and upon failure, the new
> > mni_autoreg-0.98t.tar.gz and I still got)
> 
> The .tar.gz file is not a debian package and won't satisfy "dpkg".
> It sounds like you need to fix whatever errors prevented you
> from installing the .deb.
> 
> -Steve
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