Re: [Stretch, 9.0] Installation failed to install net-tools (from scratch installation)

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Subject	Re: [Stretch, 9.0] Installation failed to install net-tools (from scratch installation)
Date	Thu, 06 Apr 2017 18:50:02 +0200
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On 2017-04-06 11:09 -0400, Jameson Burt wrote:

> On Sunday, April 2, I installed from scatch on all new hardware.
> That installation failed to install
>    net-tools

This is to be expected, net-tools is no longer installed by default, 
the alleged successor is iproute2.

> The whole installation "seemed" to go well,
> and on reboot the desktop interface worked well.
>
> While the installation properly used some networking during installation,
> afterwords I couldn't access anything beyond my computer, including
>    apt-get  install  dctrl-tools

Finding out why that happened would be very useful.

> So, while debugging, the following commands were missing
>    route
>    ifconfig

Use the ip command instead, specifically "ip route" and "ip address".

Cheers,
       Sven

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[Stretch, 9.0] Installation failed to install net-tools (from scratch installation) Jameson Burt <jameson.burt@gmail.com> - 2017-04-06 17:30 +0200
  Re: [Stretch, 9.0] Installation failed to install net-tools (from scratch installation) Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-04-06 18:50 +0200
    Re: [Stretch, 9.0] Installation failed to install net-tools (from  scratch installation) GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-04-09 12:40 +0200
      Re: [Stretch, 9.0] Installation failed to install net-tools (from  scratch installation) GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-04-09 13:00 +0200

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