Re: gnome is gone!
The library you need is libdb3. After you get libdb3 installed, I'd say
your next target is perl. potato->woody hangs up nowadays on the libdb3
transition, making perl 5.6 a PITA, but everything that uses perl is moved
to perl 5.6. I'm thinking you'll be able to go along nicely with libdb3.
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 R1nso13@aol.com wrote:
>i recently tried (and so far failed) to install printtool... and in the
>process i seemed to have wiped out gnome... here's what happened:
>i'm running 2.2r3 so i had to upgrade a lot of libraries, ect. to get to the
>point where i had all the nessicary files to dpkg printtool... (one file that
>printtool required would require 2 or 3 more files of its own) and somewhere
>between installing some new c libraries and lpr-ppd i seem to have removed
>some important gnome packages. I tried to dselect the packages to reinstall
>but it keeps getting hung up by the fact that i don't have this library that
>it needs: 'libdb.so.3' i've searched the package directory for it as well as
>'libdb.so' and gotten nothing... libdb returns like 700 results and i can't
>browse all of those for something resembling that library. so here's what i
>need to know:
>1. where do i get that library
>
>2. since i've got lines in .xinitrc to start gmc and the toolbar and neither
>one of them start, what's the most likely file that would've gotten
>uninstalled by dselect while installing some c libraries and printtool (and
>its reqired files)?
>
>well, i guess that last one isn't essential, but i'm really starting to get
>bothered by this printer that linuxdoc.org says will work 'perfectly' but
>won't even do an
>'lptest > /dev/usb/lp0' ... did that letter i sent a/b it earlier make it
>through my slow connection?
>
>anyway, i'm almost as confused as i was when i first started installing this
>crazy OS, so any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
>
>
>
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