On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 20:26:06 +0200, Bernard wrote: > I surely made a mistake trying to install 'audacity v1.3.8 beta'.
[...] > Since 'apt-get install audacity' told me that my already installed > 1.3.5 beta version was the last version available, I decided to try > 'testing' directories in my /etc/apt/sources.list. This and the > apt-get update being done, I renewed my attempt with apt-get > install. This time, it did start to install v1.3.8 of audacity. But > I encountered a problem ! Before the end of install process, I got > this message : > > " > Configuring libc6 [...] > Do you want to upgrade glibc now ? > " > > I replied 'no', and, so far, I have not attempted to continue this > install process of 'audacity' and the upgrade of glibc. [...] > Ever since then, I am encountering problems and error messages when > trying to install something. For instance, if I do : > > #apt-get install gphoto2 > > the install process starts... then : > > " > Can't exec "locale": no file or directory of this type at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16. > Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar > chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17. > dpkg : « ldconfig » not found in the variable PATH. > dpkg: 1 expected program not found in the variable PATH. > NB : the variable PATH of the superuser should contain > /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin et /sbin. > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) /usr/bin/locale and especially /sbin/ldconfig are important programs which are part of the libc-bin package. Your aborted libc6 upgrade seems to have removed this package (and possibly others), or something is wrong with your $PATH. Please post the output of this command dpkg -l libc6\* libc-\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}' so that we can see the status of libc-related packages on your system. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org