Re: gnome is gone!
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:35:24AM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 R1nso13@aol.com wrote:
> >i recently tried (and so far failed) to install printtool... and in the
> >process i seemed to have wiped out gnome... here's what happened:
> >i'm running 2.2r3 so i had to upgrade a lot of libraries, ect. to get to the
> >point where i had all the nessicary files to dpkg printtool... (one file that
> >printtool required would require 2 or 3 more files of its own) and somewhere
> >between installing some new c libraries and lpr-ppd i seem to have removed
> >some important gnome packages. I tried to dselect the packages to reinstall
> >but it keeps getting hung up by the fact that i don't have this library that
> >it needs: 'libdb.so.3' i've searched the package directory for it as well as
> >'libdb.so' and gotten nothing... libdb returns like 700 results and i can't
> >browse all of those for something resembling that library. so here's what i
> >need to know:
>
> The library you need is libdb3.
Confusingly, it's not. You need libdb2.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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