Re: Missing file error

[David McDonald <davemac@secmail.com.au>]

On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Curt Howland wrote:

> Many thanks, but...
> 
> ========
> # dpkg -S /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1
> dpkg: /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 not found.
> ========
> 
> Anyone else want to take a stab at it? There are several
> packages that will not install due to this error...

Try doing a search with your web browser - at:

	http://YOUR.FAVORITE.DEBIAN.MIRROR/distrib/packages

		or

	http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

and go to the section "Search the Contents of the Latest Release".

This method allows you to search through packages that are no longer
installed.

You might like to remove the leading directories and just use the filename
(or part of the filename) as some of the things placed on the disk are
symbolic links etc. created by the package installer scripts.

Regards,

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