Howdy On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:05:30PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Recently i ran into quite a lot of trouble with my Debian Gnu/Linux system. I > can't exactly recall what triggered the mayhem but i think it had something > to do with setting up an unstable entry in sources.list > > After correcting this i found a number of stable-packages to be in the > obsolote packages list. While trying to resolve this i decided it was time to > clean up my installation wich was more like a result of trial-and-error > install then an actual planned installation. So i removed EVERYTHING except > for the base system. There were some perl/netbase/libc6/libc6-dev issues but > i managed to get around this using dselect dpk apt as needed ... > > Now i'm stuck with netbase and libc6 (rpcinfo), and it looks really-really > ugly. To date i've not been able to get around this issue. > > Basically when installing the netbase package there is an error message while > unpacking the package. rpcinfo is to be overwritten but it's also part of the > libc6 package ... something Broken Pipe ... and then it aborts. > > No way around it. I think i've tried about everything one can do with dpkg > while still being carefull. Can someone please, please help me out :) I'm > pretty sure this can be fixed by (grmbl) reinstalling my system but i'm not > that kind of guy <grin> yet.
Firstly, fix up your sources.list. Make sure that you only have one
disitribution in it, the one that you actually want installed.
Then, give 'apt-get -f install' a go. It's usually able to fix up my
system for me. Fiddling around with essential packages like perl,
netbase and libc6 is (in my experience) a really, really bad idea.
After all that, try dselect, and go to the select packages menu, and
hit enter. Have a look at what dselect recommends installing, and
probably just accept it.
Hope it helps,
Rob.
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