Re: Need Help with dpkg Error
You said in your earlier message that you upgraded another machine
with the same version, right?
Was it the same file, or did each machine download its own copy?
If different files, do they match?
If not, try sneaker net.
If those ideas don't work, you can try rebuilding by hand just to
get things working again.
On the good machine, do dpkg -L libc6
use floppies or whatever to transfer the files listed into the proper
spots on the stuck machine.
In this latter case, you probably would still need to trick
dpkg into thinking that it was installed the right way.
Look under /var for dpkg's database. I haven't poked around
enough to point you more directly, but I trashed my /var
partition a year ago and lost my package database, among other
things.
Good luck,
Bob
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:32:28PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
> I keep getting the following error when I run apt-get anything on one of my
> boxes:
>
> Setting up libc6 (2.2.5-3) ...
> dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
> md5sum gave malformatted output `fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e'
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> libc6
>
> I've tried removing the .deb from the cache and reinstalling it. I've tried
> doing an install with =testing and =stable. I can't get rid of this bad
> package! And I can't install or remove anything until I do.
>
> What can I do?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
>
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