I'm upgrading from Debian 1.2 to 1.3 and saw the following on the web page:
"This section is only for people who are upgrading an older
Debian system... ...As root, run these commands:
dpkg --clear-avail
dpkg -i ldso_*.deb
dpkg -i libc5_*.deb
dpkg -i dpkg_*.deb dpkg-ftp_*.deb
dpkg --purge --force-depends texbin"
So I downloaded:
ldso_1.8.10-2.deb
libc5_5.4.23-6.deb
dpkg_1.4.0.8.deb
dpkg-ftp_1.4.8.deb
from the 1.3 directory of ftp.debian.org (the closest site to me).
to a brand new sub-dir, which I cd'd to before running dpkg - i.
When i tried to install the packages, I recieved the errors below.
I'm not too worried about locale settings. My guess is that they can be fixed
without making the machine unusable. I am, however, concerned about the
broken links that show up under libc5.
/usr/lib/libc.so and /usr/lib/libm.so both show up as broken symlinks.
/lib/libc.so.5 is a link to /lib/libc.so.5.4.23 and
/lib/libm.so.5 is a link to /lib/libm.so.5.0.8.
Should I link the /usr/lib stuff to the links in /lib
i.e. /usr/lib/libc.so->/lib/libc.so.5 or should I link them to the files
themselves i.e. /usr/lib/libc.so->/lib/libc.so.5.4.23? I seem to remember that
some programs can't follow too many levels of links. Or was this all
a result of not having the locale settings correct?
I don't have texbin installed, so that package isn't an issue.
Sorry for the bandwidth, but I thought all of the error messages
should be here.
Thanks
------------Begin many error messages-----------------------
$>dpkg --clear-avail
$>dpkg -i ldso_*.deb
(Reading database ... 23409 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ldso 1.8.10-1 (using ldso_1.8.10-2.deb) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:
LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = (unset),
LANG = "us"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the "C" locale.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:
LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = (unset),
LANG = "us"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the "C" locale.
Unpacking replacement ldso ...
Setting up ldso (1.8.10-2) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:
LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = (unset),
LANG = "us"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the "C" locale.
$>dpkg -i libc5_*.deb
(Reading database ... 23409 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc5 5.4.20-1 (using libc5_5.4.23-6.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc5 ...
Setting up libc5 (5.4.23-6) ...
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or directory),
skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or directory),
skipping
$>dpkg -i dpkg_*.deb dpkg-ftp_*.deb
(Reading database ... 23413 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.0.7 (using dpkg_1.4.0.8.deb) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:
LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = (unset),
LANG = "us"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the "C" locale.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:
LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = (unset),
LANG = "us"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the "C" locale.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:
LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = (unset),
LANG = "us"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the "C" locale.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:
LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = (unset),
LANG = "us"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the "C" locale.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:
LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = (unset),
LANG = "us"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the "C" locale.
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
Preparing to replace dpkg-ftp 1.4.8 (using dpkg-ftp_1.4.8.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dpkg-ftp ...
Setting up dpkg (1.4.0.8) ...
Setting up dpkg-ftp (1.4.8) ...
$>
----------End of many error messages----------------
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