Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink
Hello,
I was in the process of getting my system into a good configuration to
install my sound card. In the process of doing this, I switched from
the hamm distribution to the slink. Everything seemed to work ok during
the dselect thing, but when I finished, my wordperfect 8 nolonger
functioned. The error message was can'tload library libXt.so.6. I used
locate which had its database from before the change and I found that I
had that file (and a bunch of other ones) in the /usr/lib/libc5-compat
directory. The libXt.so.6 file was no longer there.
Well, in my infinate wisdom, :) I just used dselect to remove libc5
with the thought of reiinstalling it to get the file back. Well, It
erase several more packages then I bargined for (none to critical). I
tried to re-install the libc5 stuff and the scripts finished without any
errors. But the libc5-compat directory is not completely empty!
What package do I need to load to get the libc5 based libraries working
again? So far, the only casulity I have seen is WP8, but I'll bet I
will find others as time goes by.
Thank,
Doug Thistlethwaite
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