Re: Frustration with randome number generator vuln and ssh

[Lothar Ketterer <superapotheker@m-air.de>]

Hi,

(sorry James for sending it twice to you, forgot to press group reply)

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:29:30PM -0500, James Miller wrote:
[...]
> Reinstallation of libssl0.9.8 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
[...]
> apt-cache policy libssl-dev libssl0.9.8
[...]
> libssl0.9.8:
>  Installed: 0.9.8e-4
>  Candidate: 0.9.8e-4
>  Version table:
> *** 0.9.8e-4 0
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>     0.9.8c-4etch3 0
>        500 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
>     0.9.8c-4etch1 0
>        500 http://mirrors.kernel.org etch/main Packages
> 
> What am I doing wrong here?

Your version of libssl0.9.8 is higher than the version in etch, so the
version in the s.d.o-repo won't be installed. You must have gotten it
from somewhere else and should downgrade.

Best regards,
Lothar