dpkg "out of order" because of ldconfig?

[Ola Muan <ola.muan@talk2me.no>]

Hi all :-)

I installed tomcat 3.2.3 on my potato box recently, and had to upgrade some
packages to make it work. Among these packages were libc6 (2.1.3-18 ->
2.2.4-3) and libc6-dev (likewise).

What I did not think about or even know, in fact, was that this would
"break" apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade. So I tried to "downgrade" these
packages, but there are, as you know, about one zillion packages that
depends on libc6. So dpkg refused to do anything.

So i tried different things, without really knowing what I was doing, and
suddenly dpkg does not work at all, and I receive this error message:

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 and /sbin.

So I checked root's PATH, and it was all there, but ldconfig was not found
anywhere. Disappeared. Gone. 

I don't know how it happened and how to fix it. So I'd appreciate any tips
from you guys!

Please reply to this mail by sending a copy to ola.muan@talk2me.no. I'm not
a member of this group, because I can't cope with the heavy traffic.

Thanks in advance!


Regards,

Ola Muan
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