Decnet installer with Nmap5.2?

[lateuk]

I have just done:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

I see that "the following packages have been kept back - nmap"

The only way i can get the 5.2 version delivered in an update is using

apt-get dist-upgrade

My problem is as part of this i get an Decnet installer page appear asking for Decnet name and Decnet number, neither of which i know. Also i dont understand what Decnet has to do with it?

I dont want to continue and potentially break my build of BT4 final so i posted here.

Can anyone offer and explaination? Thanks

[phishphreek]

I did the install and took the defaults for decnet. As far as I can tell it didn't break anything...

[lateuk]

Anyone help?

[lateuk]

Yeah i tried that too and it seemed ok. Just dont like doing something without understanding what i'm doing. I'm surprised there is no other mention of it on here.

[Tom.S]

As far as I know nmap has no dependency on decnet (dnet-common). Nmap does use libdnet (libdnet), but that is an entirely different animal. I think there is a name collision here that is causing the problem.

I think that Debian and Ubuntu now package dnet (!decnet) as libdumbnet1.

Compare the comments on the link below to the libdnet sourceforge page:

Ubuntu -- Details of package libdumbnet1 in karmic


I ran apt-rdepends against nmap and did not find any obvious **current** dependencies on decnet,
but I could be missing something.

Ubuntu -- Details of package libdumbnet1 in hardy

Tom

[Warlord711]

I got the same issue, no NMAP 5.20 without dist-upgrade, which 'deliver' the decnet.

I also get error messages on boot because the kernel doesnt supports decnet, so a

 apt-get remove dnet-common

removed it.

[sml156]

I had a problem with decnet getting updated, when I reach the login prompts there is an error on 2 of the lines above the prompt
1 fail decnet not found
2 something about decnet needs to be written in the kernal ( sorry something like that not shure exactly )