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[w5uc]

Here is everything it said after I clicked on install:

dpkg -i '//home/w5uc/tmp/linrad.deb' ;echo RESULT=$?
Selecting previously deselected package linrad.
(Reading database ... 109777 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linrad (from //home/w5uc/tmp/linrad.deb) ...
Setting up linrad (01-2) ...
RESULT=0

[fingers99]

What's the output of

dpkg -s linrad

(if no result, try

dpkg -s linrad.deb)


?

Did you really type: dpkg -i '//home/w5uc/tmp/linrad.deb' ;echo RESULT=$?

All that's necessary is to copy the damn thing to your own directory and do what I said! Or is this the output from dpkg as filtered by KPackage?

What happens if you type

linrad

in a konsole?

[w5uc]

Nope, I didn't type that. I never got that far.

I didn't have to do the root password or anyhing.
I got a window with Linrad at the bottom of a tree. I highlighted Linrad, and clicked on Install at the bottom, and away we went. It thought a bit and spit out all of that stuff. I'll go ry the new stuff.

[w5uc]

dpkg -s linrad yields:

w5uc@SHOP:~$ dpkg -s linrad
Package: linrad
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: alien
Installed-Size: 2284
Maintainer: root <root@SHOP>
Architecture: i386
Version: 01-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libsvga1
Description: A SDR (software defined radio) being devoped by SM5BSZ
A SDR intended primarily for experimenting radio amateurs, but very adaptablefor almost any purpose. Wideband design (up to ~90 kHz with current availiblehardware) allows effective noiseblankers to be configured.
.
(Converted from a rpm package by alien version 8.48.)

[w5uc]

dpkg -s linrad.deb yields:


w5uc@SHOP:~$ dpkg -s linrad.deb
Package `linrad.deb' is not installed and no info is available.

Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
w5uc@SHOP:~$

[w5uc]

linrad yields:

w5uc@SHOP:~$ linrad
bash: linrad: command not found
w5uc@SHOP:~$

[w5uc]

if I go to the konsole and type:
dpkg -1 linrad.deb it yields:

w5uc@SHOP:~$ dpkg -1 linrad.deb
dpkg: unknown option -1

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages[*];
Use dselect for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --licence for copyright licence and lack of warranty (GNU GPL)[*].

Options marked[*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' !
w5uc@SHOP:~$

[w5uc]

Two bits of info. I don't have the foggiest notion how I extracted those .deb files, and I say those because originally linrad.deb has another name. I tried something and it said I couldn't do that and to rename the file, so I did. Do we possibly need to go back to the un-renamed file and try?

[w5uc]

Nope, that didn't work. Same output as with linrad.deb

[fingers99]

Do we possibly need to go back to the un-renamed file and try?

Yes. But first, you're reading

dpkg -i linrad.deb

as

dpkg -1 linrad.deb

i is for "install"