Screen refresh problem with mc display of sendmail qf files

Jim Holland mc at mango.zw
Sun Dec 11 20:40:09 UTC 2005


On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Jim Holland wrote:

> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:31:57 +0200 (CAT)
> From: Jim Holland <mc at mango.zw>
> To: MC <mc at gnome.org>
> Subject: Re: Screen refresh problem with mc display of sendmail qf files
 
> Thanks for that tip.  I found that I also needed to copy over various
> extra files from the original package that were omitted from the above
> version (eg all the files in /usr/share/doc/mc, /usr/share/mc, the man
> pages in /usr/share/man/man1, and a couple of others).  Perhaps I was
> being a little too clever by downloading the rpm and then using rpm2deb to
> convert it to a Debian package before installing that rather than using 
> the tarball.
> 
> Once I had loaded the above extra files I found it solved the display 
> problem mentioned.

A further check showed that the missing file problem was definitely the 
fault of the rpm2deb conversion.
 
Regards
 
Jim Holland
System Administrator
MANGO -  Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service




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