Re: dpkg and ldd

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:55:29AM -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:

> I'm trying to build a package, but at the end of the process, I'm
> getting this:
> 
> dh_shlibdeps
> dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: cannot exec ldd: No such file or directory
> [...]
> I've got an lddlibc4 on my machine, but that's it.  apt-cache search ldd
> didn't help at all.  This worked fine about 14 days ago, so I'm assuming
> one of my Sid upgrades broke this.
> 
> I haven't found any references to this problem elsewhere, so I'm going
> to guess I may be an isolated case?  That, or I'm just an idiot (I'm
> sure many of you can attest to that fact) and I missed the discussion on
> this issue.

/usr/bin/ldd is part of the libc6 package, and is definitely still there in
2.2.4-7 (current unstable).  This is the same package which contains
lddlibc4.  Try apt-get --reinstall install libc6.

-- 
 - mdz