Re: Frustration with randome number generator vuln and ssh

[James Miller <jimm@simutronics.com>]

A n d i k a Triwidada wrote:

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:29 AM, James Miller <jimm@simutronics.com> wrote:
  

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
    

Did you install Ubuntu's libssl0.9.8 manually?

--
andika


  

Hello everyone,

An outstanding suggestion from Michel Messerschmidt took care of the problem for me:

All I needed to do was run "aptitude install libssl0.9.8=0.9.8c-4etch3" and here's why

> Although the security update has a higher priority, the currently
> installed package has a higher version number and thus won't be
> downgraded with an "update" or "reinstall" command.

> You need to purge libssl0.9.8 and install it again in a second run (may
> be difficult because of dependencies).
> Or do a direct downgrade to 0.9.8c-4etch3 with
> "aptitude install libssl0.9.8=0.9.8c-4etch3"


I have to admit, I _really_ need to learn aptitude, I'm kinda stuck in my ways using apt-get and dselect.


--Jim