On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:49:45PM -0500, Thomas Shemanske wrote: > Yes, nice hole you've dug... :-)
The nice thing about debian is that there's always someone willing to throw you you a rope :) The unfortunate thing about rope is that if you slip it's all too easy to hang yourself from it ;) > > When running a mixed distribution always use apt-get install (since it > will pull in all the dependencies and install them in the right order). > > > Your current problem is the disappearance of /sbin/ldconfig. Under > potato, this used to be in a package called ldso?, but under woody, it > is in libc6. What you need to do is simply get a copy of ldconfig and > manually place it in /sbin. Check with the potato versions of libc6 and > ldso for their contents, and install it in /sbin. Then you can continue > with the apt-get -f install. > > > To extract the ldconfig binary, download the deb files and use the command > > dpkg --extract ldso....deb temp_dir (or something like that). > Perhaps the same with the potato libc6, until you find ldconfig > > This should get you going. > > Luck > > TRS All nicely fixed and back on track, ta very much. Lesson learnt. Cheers for your help, Thomas - much appreciated. > > > kar wrote: > > >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 > > > > > > kar
