On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:55:47PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > 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. Yah, good point. For the OP, http://people.debian.org/~walters/chroot.html has a simple guide on how to do this. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: South Africa Echelon fissionable ASLET Noriega JSOFC3IP
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