On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:30:05PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 03:55:08PM +0200, nacho@imit.kth.se wrote: > > Hi everybody: > > I am getting kind of desperate with this and before trhasong all my debian > > installation I would like to beg for help in the list. I broke my > > installation of libc6, while trying to install a newer version, and then I > > was not able to deinstall or install another version, since everything > > segfaulted. I though that I would be able to reinstall the libc6 with the > > rescue disks, but I have been unable to do it so far... so, what is the > > less destroying way of getting my debian system to boot again? > > For future reference, it's almost never a good idea to play with libc6 > manually. If you have a package that won't install because it wants > 'libc6 >= 2.3.1-16' or whatever, either rebuild it from source AGAINST > YOUR CURRENT LIBC6, or upgrade your entire system to sarge/sid and run > it there. Or make a chroot with libc6-2.3.1-16. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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