Hi, Perhaps someone could help with my problem:
I run potato, but wanted to upgrade the whois from the stable whois_4.4.14.deb to the unstable whois_4.5.19_i386.deb. In order to achieve this, I ran the following commands (to meet the required dependencies): % dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-1_i386.deb % dpkg -i whois_4.5.19_i386.deb All very well. But now it starts to go wrong: apt-get informs me that locales has unmet dependecies, so I update to the newer version - all the time checking http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages for dependencies, but in reality just digging myself into a hole :( So, I continue: % dpkg -i locales_2.2.5-1_all.deb but this won't work because it requires a newer version of libc6-dev. So I decide: enough. Just reinstall the stable packages and to hell with whois - it's just getting too messy and I only wanted to update my whois. So I try: % dpkg -i whois_4.4.14.deb % dpkg -i locales_2.1.3-19.deb dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin. % env PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin % dpkg -l ldconfig Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ un ldconfig <none> (no description available) I also tried: % dpkg -i libc6_2.1.3-19.deb but get the same problem. If I try doing an upgrade: % apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-20) but 2.1.3-19 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. % apt-get -f install Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 locales 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/4185kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) So, finally, just to let you know where we're up to: % dpkg -l whois libc6 locales Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-====================-====================-======================================================== ii whois 4.4.14 whois client iF libc6 2.1.3-19 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data iU locales 2.1.3-19 GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [binary] So does anyone have any ideas how I get out of this self-made mess? Help would be greatly appreciated! kar
