Originally Posted by sigbert

Hi,

I found a solution under: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1147275

The sulu image has no /etc/groups file, therefore no group crontab exists. so, I created the group with:

Code:

groupadd crontab

and I try to install R now.

Sigbert

Originally Posted by nicholes

i installed easy Debian today. i am very new in this OS, when i go to synaptic pkg mg (assuming we can install apps via this) i searched for blender. and it was downloading but i got some error .............


W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/poo...-0.0_armel.deb
404 Not Found


W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/poo...-0.0_armel.deb
404 Not Found

Originally Posted by nicholes

later i got this when i try diffrent packages(now even in blender)

Code:

dpkg: unrecoveralbe fatal error abortin:
syntax error: unknown group 'crontab' in statover file
E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. trying to recover:

Originally Posted by nicholes

i try k3d also but i got same erorr every time

Originally Posted by nicholes

i was installing other 3d viwer and i got this

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_PAPER = "en_IN",
LC_ADDRESS = "en_IN",
LC_MONETARY = "en_IN",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_IN",
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_IN",
LC_MESSAGES = "en_US",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_IN",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_IN",
LC_TIME = "en_US",
LC_NAME = "en_IN",
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Originally Posted by nicholes

i have estle image! also i dont understand what do you by thaat code. can anyone explain it plz ( i am very noob here)

Originally Posted by sulu

Your package database is outdated. Run this before trying to install blender:

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Clicking "Reload" in Synaptic will do the same.

Which image do you use? If you're using one of the older Debian Lenny/Squeeze-based images chances are that installing new software will break things. I suggest to use either my or (better) Estel's image, which are completely based on Debian Squeeze.

I guess sigbert is right and /etc/groups is missing in my image. I remember tinkering with it. It might just have been at the time when I uploaded my image. Estel's image most likely suffers from the same problem since it's based on mine.

I assume you mean k3b? It's the same reason as for the blender libs. Your package database want's to install a k3b version which is no longer in the repo.
btw, just curious: Why would one install a disc burning software on a smartphone?

Your locales are not installed in your image. To solve that run:

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure locales

In the upcoming menu select all four of the ISO 8859-1and the UTF8 variants of en_US and en_IN

As pointed out by sigbert the /etc/groups file, which handles all group settings is missing. Blender or some of its dependencies apparently want's to create a crontab entry (a task that is executed automatically at given times). To do that the user who runs this task must be a member of the crontab group. Since there are no group definitions at all we don't even have a crontab group, so we need to create it. That's what sigbert's command does.

btw, just curious: Why would one install a disc burning software on a smartphone?

Originally Posted by nicholes

i asume that these task to be done in root xtrm(under debian)

Originally Posted by nicholes

and when i dpkg-recofigure ....

there are more than four ISO 8859-1 (can you be more specific plz) or i should mark all named "ISO 8859-1" ?

Originally Posted by nicholes

i did not find en_IN (ISO 8859-1) (as image shows)

Originally Posted by nicholes

but when i try to close qindow a warning appear

"you are about to close a toorxtrm window this may cause loss of data.are you sure you want to continue?"

should i press ok?