How to install Hynetd-0.2.3 under ubuntu 6.06?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday 03 February 2007 11:34, zhihang wang wrote:
> I want to install the Hynetd-0.2.3 under ubuntu 6.06. I read the INSTALL
> file with the Hynetd package and I know it needs *net-snmp ver 5.2 or
> higher*.
> I download the net-snmp rpm package from the webset and use alien commant
> to change this package to deb package. Then I use
> sudo dpkg -i
> to install this package. But I can't successfull. the error message is:
>
> (Reading database ... 110095 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking net-snmp (from net-snmp_5.4-2_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing net-snmp_5.4-2_i386.deb (--install):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/encode_keychange.1.gz', which is
> also in package snmp
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  net-snmp_5.4-2_i386.deb
>
> Then I use the following instruction to intstall the net-snmp package.
> sudo apt-get install *libsnmp-base, libsnmp5, snmp and snmpd*
> Although I install these package successfully, I still can't install the
> Hynetd package.

net-snmp 5.2 or higher is in the repositories for Dapper, Edgy, and Feisty.  
Your first mistake is installing something from an external source that you 
can get from within the Ubuntu distribution.  

So, go back and install net-snmp from the repositories and work from there.

Scott K