>>>> "AMAC" == Andrew M A Cater <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> writes: AMAC> Hi people, Hi, AMAC> I fixed my broken woody box by downgrading libdb2 and glibc. AMAC> Mail now works again - I should be able to do an apt-get dist-upgrade AMAC> and sort out everything that needs sorting out AMAC> BUT AMAC> I lost ldconfig in the process so dpkg is failing. cd /tmp dpkg-deb -x ldso_1.9.11-xx_i386.deb . cd sbin Move the necessary files in the right place. Christian