Re: Conflicts make APT useless
Thomas Halahan wrote:
>
> 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?
The perl script for dpkg --preconfigure (called by dselect) bombed
because libdb.so.3 was missing, due to a less-than-perfectly-
organized package, I'm sure. I could start up dselect, but
couldn't do anything, IIRC. So I symlinked the missing lib
to a lib of a similar name, and finished my upgrade, which included,
IIRC, libdb2.so.3 . I had to do this linking _before_ I could
install the new libdb, or anything, for that matter.
I'm sure my method is cheating, and may be considered heretical
and/or dangerous, but it worked.
>
> LISTING--
>
> [tom@orange tom]$ ls /lib/libdb* -l
> -rw-r--r-- ... /lib/libdb-2.1.94.so
> lrwxrwxrwx ... /lib/libdb.so.2 -> libdb1-2.1.94.so
> lrwxrwxrwx ... /lib/libdb.so.3 -> libdb-2.1.94.so
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't remember that specific "-2.1.94.", but this is
in the nature of what I did. I see '-2.1.94.' on the
Debian/sparc host, which is my desktop, FWIW.
> -rw-r--r-- ... /lib/libdb1-2.1.94.so
> lrwxrwxrwx ... /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...
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