Re: [Denemo-devel] Building Denemo 0.8.10 from gub, afresh

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:46:54 +0000
Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:20 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > 
> > I would probably just install debian again. I use ubuntu and gub has
> > never worked for me. It always fails at some point trying to meet
> > the dependencies. Do you create a seperate /home partition? If so
> > re-installation is easy with debian based systems.
> 
> I just took the defaults, which doesn't do a separate partition. But
> it is quite small - it fits on a dvd, so I can just back up. It is
> strange though, I am not getting problems generally - programs are
> not crashing mysteriously or anything. But intensive work building
> like gub, or, once just building denemo, throws up some un-repeatable
> failure of gcc, or gas or ld or ...

Have you ever done a cpucheck. You could also have overheating issues.
There are utilities that tax your cpu real hard to find out if there
is any computation errors at heavy loads.  

> I don't know how to install debian again without downloading
> everything again, which takes more than one night. 

I can't remember the name of the command but there but it lists all
packages installed. I would use this if I wanted to reinstall a system
and have all the same programs. All the current packages that are
installed in your system are usually backed up on debian based systems
in /var somewhere. In ubuntu it is in /var/cache/apt/archives/. If you
add this to a dvd or hard drive based repository I think it will save
you from downloading everything again because it is already sitting
there.  

>Is there some
> re-installation that would work from the already downloaded stuff?

I would try the method mentioned above if you don't want to worry about
the downloading. I would do a cpu if not a ram check first. Then
google the method mentioned above. I have seen it documented in
various ways. I think it may be installing via bootable business card
or something. 

Jeremiah 


> Richard
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