heu all. I was doing some house cleaning and I think I uninstallaed something important. I try to install any program from both the gui package manager or the commmand line and I come up with the following error...

/usr/bin/ipkg: line 688: zcat: command not found
/usr/bin/ipkg: line 688: zcat: command not found
tar: ./control.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
mv: unable to rename `//home/tmp/ipkg/dillo2/control/*': No such file or directory
Installing dillo2.../usr/bin/ipkg: line 754: zcat: command not found
/usr/bin/ipkg: line 754: zcat: command not found
tar: ./data.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
/usr/bin/ipkg: line 763: zcat: command not found
/usr/bin/ipkg: line 763: zcat: command not found
tar: ./data.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
sed: //usr/lib/ipkg/info/dillo2.control: No such file or directory
grep: //usr/lib/ipkg/info/dillo2.control: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ipkg: line 800: [: dillo2: unary operator expected


any ideas?

fish

If missing zcat is the root of the problem, maybe you deinsalled a package which contains that?
On my system, zcat is a link to gzip, and there is a package called gzip which contains the gzip binary.

You could download that package, extract the files on another computer and then copy them to the Zaurus manually. There are only the files

/bin/gunzip
/bin/gzip
/bin/zcat (link to /bin/gzip)

in the package, so manual installation is easy.

daniel

see, that's the problem right there. I uninstalled gzip by accident. Ok, thanks for your help, so much! If I am ever in germany I'll buy you a beer

--Fish