While running sgfxi to install the Nvidia graphics drivers using the package from the Nvidia webpage it prints out an error that the command m-a is not found. It completes the install just fine, leading me to believe this error message is just erroneous.

Other information:
Exact error message "missing m-a Line 4547"
Debian Stable (Squeeze, 6.0)
Tested on both 32 bit and 64 bit systems
Chose aptitude to install dependencies and it seemed to function properly.

Again it installed the driver just fine this message is just annoying and can cause confusion.
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that is indeed an error, thank you for reporting it, I will see if I can find out what's going on.

In current Sid, m-a belongs to module-assistant

Can you show me: which m-a
then: apt-cache policy module-assistant

sgfxi should have tested for module-assistant and installed it automatically, let me verify that the logic is correct
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packages.debian.org/squeeze/module-assistant

the package is in squeeze.

The sgfxi logic works like this:
on start, verify install tools are present, if missing, and if available in apt, install.

I actually never considered the case where sgfxi could get by this point then try to run m-a
which is at: /usr/bin/m-a

Since module-assistant is in squeeze, I wonder if the m-a abbreviation has changed, that's possible, if so, it will be fairly easy to set the path/name correctly internally in sgfxi, but I'll need to know what that name is now if it has in fact changed.

Can you paste in the output of this: dpkg -L module-assistant
that will let me see if the name has changed.

I can also change m-a to be explicit, that is, module-assistant, m-a is just a shorthand link to module-assistant anyway, so if it's causing an error let's get it fixed.


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