On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:59, Chris McCormick wrote:
> At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote:
>
> >ls -alF /lib/libc[-.]*
> >
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 888096 Sep 26 02:30
> >/lib/libc-2.1.3.so*
> >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 7 18:17 /lib/libc.so.6
> >-> libc-2.1.3.so*
>
> Same except i also have libc5 installed.
>
>
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
>
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
> ii tar 1.13.17-2 GNU tar
> ii libc6 2.1.3-23 GNU C
> Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
> ii dpkg 1.6.15 Package
> maintenance system for Debian
> ii apt 0.3.19 Advanced
> front-end for dpkg
> ii gzip 1.2.4-33.1 The GNU
> compression utility.
>
> older version of libc (that's what the system is trying to upgrade, but
> dpkg is breaking).
So your package system has libc6 marked as installed but /lib/libc.so.6
is not there. Is that correct?