>>>>> "Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig> Craig> try running 'ldconfig' (you need to be root to do this). Craig> Craig> from the man page: Craig> Craig> DESCRIPTION Craig> ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache (for use by Craig> the run-time linker, ld.so) to the most recent shared Craig> libraries found in the directories specified on the com Craig> mand line, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and in the trusted Craig> directories (/usr/lib and /lib). Craig> Craig> my guess is that libc5_5.4.20 didn't install correctly for some reason Craig> and ldconfig was not run to update the shared lib links.
I did run ldconfig as part of my manual installation of ld.so. Craig> If this doesn't help, try booting with your rescue/install disk and Craig> updating the /lib/libc.so.5 sym link by hand - in the worst case, you Craig> may need to copy the libc5 from the rescue disk onto the hard disk Craig> before creating the sym link - then reboot and immediately install a new Craig> libc5 with dpkg. Thank you for the suggestion. All links seem to be OK in my lib directories. Finally i found the problem : the file /etc/ld.so.conf did not contain /lib and /usr/lib anymore, but as soon as i added those directories, dpkg worked again. -- Laurent.
