Re: HELP! Crashed system
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Brian Schramm wrote:
> I installed Debian from my infomagic cd that had version 1.1.4 on it.
> It worked but I needed some new packages so I FTP'ed to Debian.org. I
> let it update all selected files and now dselect will not work any
> more. I have also found out that mc sill not work. Both were working
> before. What has happened? Can anyone tell me how to get to a working
> system from this point?
>
I assume by "dselect will not work any more" you mean you can't use the
ftp method. You will need to use ftp to fetch dpkg-ftp from stable/net and
install it by hand (dpkg -i).
Mc depends upon libgdb1, but fails to declare the dependence. You will
find the package in stable/misc.
Luck,
Dwarf
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