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-rw-r--r--hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn13
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn
index 84dae291..33a70349 100644
--- a/hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn
@@ -49,18 +49,7 @@ put in `/etc/apt/sources.list` are (as of Jan 2007):
`apt-get` update a couple of times if some file fails to download.
-<!-- As long as I am around (which is as off February 2005) I never ever had to
-do such following frobbing. Should we remove this? --[[tschwinge]] -->
-
-If when doing your first `apt-get`, `dpkg` complains of missing programs, [try
-to cheat it this
-way](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/1999/05/msg00187.html):
-
- # ln -s /sbin/ldconfig /bin/ldconfig
- # ln -s /bin/true /bin/update-rc.d
- # ln -s /bin/true /bin/start-stop-daemon
- # ln -s /bin/true /bin/install-info
- # ln -s /bin/true /bin/update-alternatives
+If when doing your first `apt-get`, `dpkg` complains of missing programs, get root in a login shell (`su -`).
Installing packages without having a network connection is described
[[Distrib/DebianAptOffline]].