On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:23:36 -0700
Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ihad the same problem a couple of days ago--the hard party was that the 
> library was
> missing, so I couldn't upgrade to a working version.  It tried to 
> preconfigure, and
> then perl tanked with the same error message that you got.  What I did was 
> ftp to
> another machine, grab /usr/lib/libdb.so.3, and move it to the right place on 
> the
> broken box.  Then I immediately did an upgrade and the problem fixed itself 
> with the
> upgrade (the package in question got upgraded, overwriting the bad version.

I upgraded libc6 libc6-dev locales and the libdb2 packages and all is well.
The buggy libc6 is no more.


--
Andrew

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