Re: DANGER: installing ld.so & libc5 with dftp

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

Brian C. White writes:
> No.  This was a recent upgarde of a few packages in unstable on a
> right-up-to-date system.  As I understand it, what happened was
> approximately this...
> 
>   dpkg --install .../ldso* .../libc5* .../<other packages>
> 
> the results were
> 
>   unpack ldso
>   unpack libc5    (error "perl: cannot find libdl.so.1")
>   unpack <others> (error "perl: cannot find libdl.so.1" occasionally)

This is due to a problem in the ld.so packaging.  It will be fixed in
the next version.  Until it's available, you should install ld.so by
itself.

David
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