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Originally Posted by gykiss View Post
Hi,

I am trying to setup my PPTP tunnel based on the step-by-step instructions, but I stucked at the beginning with the dpkg commands. I cannot install the pptp and ppp packages to my N900 downloaded from fanoush home page.
Does anyone have an idea, what can be missing? Seems only I have this problem.
Here is the error message I get:

usr/sbin # dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/pptp-linux_1.7.2-1_armel.deb
(Reading database ... 27799 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace pptp-linux 1.7.2-1 (using .../pptp-linux_1.7.2-1_armel.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement pptp-linux ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pptp-linux:
pptp-linux depends on ppp (>= 2.4.2); however:
Package ppp is not installed.
dpkg: error processing pptp-linux (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
pptp-linux
/usr/sbin # dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/ppp_2.4.4rel-8osso4_armel.deb
(Reading database ... 27799 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ppp (from .../ppp_2.4.4rel-8osso4_armel.deb) ...
Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/ppp ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to pipe in copy)
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /home/user/MyDocs/ppp_2.4.4rel-8osso4_armel.deb (--install):
short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/sbin/pppd')
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/user/MyDocs/ppp_2.4.4rel-8osso4_armel.deb
/usr/sbin #

i have this problem too !!!

help plz