I must correct my earlier message on this subject. I certainly did get that error message, but I was not upgrading bash. I was working through .../disks-i386/1997-05-30/Upgrading except that I did it slightly out of order, like this.
dpkg -i dpkg<version>.deb dpkg --clear-avail dpkg -i ldso<version>.deb dpkg -i libc5<version>.deb dpkg --purge --force-depends texbin dselect I am a little uncertain now as to exactly when it bombed. The upgrade of dpkg may or may not have been successful. The upgrades of ldso and lib5c definitely failed and I never did get to texbin. Lindsay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .