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