Dear All
(apologies for the long subject line)
I had a perfectly good Apache installation; broke it (by accident) and
hacked a fix. But I'd like to know what happened and how to fix it
properly.
The error I was getting is:
debian:/# apache
apache: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
debian:/# ls -l /lib/libdb*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 233488 Apr 18 2002 lib/libdb.so.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 24 10:06 lib/libdb2.so.2
-> libdb2.so.2.7.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262812 Apr 18 2002 lib/libdb2.so.2.7.7
And the fix I did was just:
debian:/# cd /lib
debian:/lib# ln -s libdb.so.3 libdb.so.2
But surely that only fixes the symptoms, not what was actually wrong.
Here's the story:
1. Apache 1.3 working on Debian Woody.
2. I tried installing anjuta_0.9.99-1_i386.deb with dpkg -i and got this
message:
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Sorry, anjuta is already the newest version.
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
anjuta: Depends: libdb3 (>= 3.2.9-17) but 3.2.9-16 is to be installed
Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.1-1) but 2.0.9-1 is to be installed
Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2 (>= 0.18.0-1) but 0.17.0-2 is to be
installed
Depends: libpopt0 (>= 1.6.4) but 1.6.2-7 is to be installed
locales: Depends: glibc-2.2.5-6
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).
3. Found and installed the required packages, again with dpkg -i.
4. Had a go with Anjuta - didn't like it (no offence meant).
5. Uninstalled all those debs, reinstalled the originals, using dselect.
6. Now, trying to run apache gets this message:
apache: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
7. uninstalling and reinstalling apache has no effect.
8. debian:/# ls -l /lib/libdb*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 233488 Apr 18 2002 lib/libdb.so.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 24 10:06 lib/libdb2.so.2
-> libdb2.so.2.7.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262812 Apr 18 2002 lib/libdb2.so.2.7.7
Is there a package missing? Did installing Anjuta et al. damage some
other packages?
Any comments welcome
Best wishes
Ivan
