Re: HELP!! Re: HELP!: problems after POTATO upgrade

[Philip Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:

>I updated libncurses4, libncurses4-dev, libreadlineg2_2.1-13.6
>(bash_2.02.1-1.8) as well now, but I'm having trouble since libc6-dev
>conflicts with libstdc++2.9-dev:
[...]
>Fine, so I try to deinstall libstdc++2.9-dev but:
>
>h0rus:/tmp# dpkg --purge libstdc++2.9-dev
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libstdc++2.9-dev:
> g++ depends on libstdc++2.9-dev (>= 2.91.60).
                                   ^^
                                   ^^
[...]

install libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 (2.91.66-1)
install libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev (2.91.66-1)
install libc6-dev
remove the old libstdc++2.9-dev
enjoy

>Also, if I ever get to install libc6-dev (fingers crossed), will I have
>to reinstall all those libraries which returned all the :
>
>  ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libcrypt.so (No such file or
>  directory), skipping
>
>errors?  I say this since `dpkg -l' lists all of them as fully
>installed (I attach a `dpkg -l' log).

These errors might be caused by orphaned symlinks. Check if
/usr/lib/libcrypt.so actually points to an existing library. If not if
you don't have libcrypt installed, remove to link.

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