Re: ldconfig

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:06:56PM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> I have dselect in somewhat of a mess, having a number of programs
> 'in limbo' (including libc6). Trying to downgrade libc6, I got 
> the same error message to that below - (this actual error was
> obtained by trying to remove a program I don't need to see if
> there's an overall problem with ldconfig).
> The paths are in fact correct.    
> 
> ------
> # dpkg -r elvis-tiny
> dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
> NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin 
> ------
> 
> I don't know which program provides the command 'ldconfig'. Can
> anyone enlighten me please.

Sounds to me like you upgraded to libc6 2.2, and then tried to go back
to 2.1.x. You need to reinstall ldso. Download it from potato, and do
this:

dpkg --force-bad-path -i ldso.deb

That should fix your problem.

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