Re: Conflicts make APT useless

[Thomas Halahan <tom@halahan.com>]

Hello,

Thanks for your promt reply.  Much appreciated.  I didn't quite
understand this:

> I fixed this with a link to a libdb?.so in /lib via /lib/libdb.so.3,  
> and after that, the upgrade to a new libdb worked.  

Do I just install libdb and manually link libdb2.so.3 back to the new
libc6.so.  Is this right?

LISTING--

[tom@orange tom]$ ls /lib/libdb* -l
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       237708 Sep 30 05:52 /lib/libdb-2.1.94.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Oct  4 15:06 /lib/libdb.so.2 -> libdb1-2.1.94.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Oct  4 15:06 /lib/libdb.so.3 -> libdb-2.1.94.so
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        50876 Sep 30 05:52 /lib/libdb1-2.1.94.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Oct  4 15:06 /lib/libdb1.so.2 -> libdb1-2.1.94.so                                                                         

> Thomas Halahan wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3.  During this process I have had
> > the same problems as many.  i.e.
> > 
> > * libdb.so.3 not found
> > * ldconfig disappears
> > 
> > But now my apt (dselsct and gnome-apt) shows many unsolved
> > dependencies which become very confusing and difficult to solve.
> > Most notable is the requirement of libdb2 by many packages.  However
> > libdb2 conflicts with my libc6, so there is nothing I can do.
> > 
> > How do I persuade my apt programs to work again, as I am fed up of
> > downloading individual packages that turn out to have
> > interdependencies that are too difficult to solve with dpkg?