Upgrade has hosed my system :-(

[Nidge Jones <nidge@nikel.co.uk>]

Well after my last post I decided to go ahead and try upgrading one of my
Debian 1.3.1 systems.,,, and now I have a hosed box :-(

I used apt-get (on the CD) to upgrade, after being told by many of you it
was better than the .sh method.

I first edited the /etc/apt/sources.list file, so that it pointed at my
CDROM. Ie..

deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main

I then ran "apt-get update"

All appeared to be going well, no error messages etc. SO I continued to the
next part suggested in the README, and ran "apt-get -f dist-upgrade".

Now this appeared to be updating/installing EVERYTHING from the Debian 2.0
CD, which is NOT what I wanted, but I let it continue. After a while it
stopped strutting it's stuff... all appearing OK.

So I then tried to run "apt-get install timezones locales" like the read
suggests. But I get the Error...

apt-get: can't load library 'libstdc++.so.27'

And am unable to continue any futher !


How can I recover from this. If I use dselect to see whats installed,
everything is shown as a 'broken' package :-(

PLEASE HELP! 

BTW: Please Cc any replies to me via email, as I am still awaiting for
confirmation I am back on the debian-user list !

Thanks in advance.

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Nidge Jones