Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato
For me it was even worse. I half-installed libc6 in the old version, then
opened dselect, and tried to remove libdb2 (something probably extremely
silly). Now libc is broken, along with dpkg rm, mv, ls, and probably
another lot of basic stuff. What is wrong for dpkg to work, is that it
does not find ldconfig.
Is there a way to solve this, make dpkg work and reinstall the newer
version of libc?
Otherwise I have to reinstall everything from scratch. This is boring, but
perhaps is the easiest way to go back to potato.
Thanks
Alessandro
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Stephan Engelke wrote:
> Johann Spies writes:
>
> > Replace your libc6 package with the potato version using dpkg -i with
> > the --force-depends option.
>
> Unfortunately this did not work; I could not get around the
> dependencies on glibc 2.2.
>
> To shorten a long story, I have done a reinstall, and got the system
> up to working condition within three hours. There's probably the odd
> package still missing, but I am reinstalling everything by hand
> intentionally, because it gives me a chance to clean things up a
> little and get rid of unused packages.
>
> Cheers -- Stephan
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