Re: Hosed my debian system.
On Wed, Jul 30, 1997 at 11:42:28AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> On %M %N, G. Dale Miller wrote
> > I think I have done something rather stupid. I have been waiting for
> > the libreadlineg2 package to appear so I could configure gdb. I found
> > it last night and decided to install it. What I didn't notice was that
> > there was a new libreadline2 package as well. I tried to install
> > libreadlineg2 and it said it conflicted with libreadline2 so I did the
> > following.
> >
> > dpkg --purge --force-depends libreadline2.
>
> congratulations. this kills your system !
> (i did the same *eg*)
Hmm why does it kill the system? I guess that it's because
bash needs libreadline2.
Easy fix: use tcsh :-)
Hamish
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