I had thought I copied the list. A fine individual named Ulf yesterday said "just delete the failed symlink."
I did, and it's all working fine now. Many thanks, though. That would at least had gotten deselect and the other failing software working, but the package dependencies would still have found the broken symlink and failed to install. Curt- The bug report is #30583 for anyone interested. Jiri Baum wrote: > > Hello, > > Curt Howland: > > My bug report got no action, since the suggested package to "solve" the > > library problem will not install without the missing file. > > I don't know where the file comes from (my system has libdb.so.2), but if > you need a file out of a package, you can always "ar x" and "tar x" to > unpack it manually. Then copy the missing file where it belongs. > > (That's copy the deb into a subdirectory, do "ar x libwhatever.deb" and > then "tar xzf data.tar.gz".) > > If you install a .so file in this way, don't forget to run ldconfig to > update all the softlinks and the cache. > > Once you've got your system up and running, you should probably install > that deb using dpkg, so that it knows about the file. > > Jiri > -- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently > quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why. -- --- Curt Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Priss.com "The Probability Broach" by L. Neil Smith ISBN:0-812-53875-7 Available from Laissez Faire Books http://www.lfb.org/ 1.800.326.0996
