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Posted: Dec. 15 2006,21:07 QUOTE

downgrade of apt? Thought synaptic was only a frontend to apt...

Can you give the output of `echo "${HOME}"` and `cd ~/ && pwd`?  And I suppose you are running as root:root?
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Posted: Dec. 19 2006,09:36 QUOTE

It appears the problem is on a specific package:
I cannot get tcsh whereas I have been able to apt-get other packages (like csh). As I wanted to install my shell prior to getting the other tools I needed, I thought I was facing some overall problem.
As I am on Frugal I run every root command through a sudo.
Therefore the output of the two commands mentioned by ^thehatsrule^ is /home/dsl
The whole error message is:
Unpacking tcsh (from  .../tcsh_6.11.00-2.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tcsh_6.11.00-2.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
unable to create `./etc/skel/.cshrc':  Read-only file  system[QUOTE]
So the problem seems now related rather to a debian package behaviour than to DSL and apt problem.
Sorry if I posted my question in the wrong place, but even if I can now work without solving that particular issue, I'd like to understand what is happening.
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Posted: Dec. 19 2006,14:04 QUOTE

Ah, well /etc/skel is the initial environment, I guess the tcsh checks for this.  In a DSL livecd, the home environment is created from this.

It is read-only because normally it's only read.  You could temporarily get the package installed by removing the symlink in /ramdisk/etc/skel (and optionally copying /KNOPPIX/etc/skel directory over).  An alternative would be to extract it (use it manually) and/or re-package it (in deb or mydsl format)
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Posted: Dec. 20 2006,10:54 QUOTE

Thank you! It works!
I write my exact solution here so I know where to find it later:
Code Sample
sudo rm /etc/skel
sudo cp -r /KNOPPIX/etc/skel /etc/
apt-get install tcsh
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