On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:03:01PM +0000, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > > Most things I try say that the GLIBC 2.2 package library or whatever is not > installed. I try various permitations of apt-cache search and apt-get install > and reinstall and fix to try get things working again, but most things, such > as perl, need glibc2.2. I don't know where things went wrong, but presumably > I messed up somewhere, and don't know where I did it. Nothing in potato should need glibc 2.2. Potato uses glibc 2.1. How did you manage to get woody/sid packages installed on your potato system? > Question 1: Is the system salvagable? I suspect not. Is it possible to > install the GLIBC_2.2 (I can't recall the exact error) - or is it needed by > everything, including the install routines? They're always salvagable, it's just not always worth the effort. In this case, it should be pretty easy to salvage since you've got another working OS on the system. Boot to your other OS and copy glibc 2.2 over to the potato system. > Question 2: Assuming I'm looking at a clean rebuild, is there anything I can > salvage from the current install that will save me another long download. I'm Assuming you've got /home on a separate partition, copy everything there while you re-install. The .debs from /var/cache/apt/archives is fine to copy over. Apt on the new system will be smart enough to see them and not download them again. But of course, you don't necessarily have to re-install. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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