Re: problem installing new packages
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 20:26:06 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> I surely made a mistake trying to install 'audacity v1.3.8 beta'.
[...]
> Since 'apt-get install audacity' told me that my already installed
> 1.3.5 beta version was the last version available, I decided to try
> 'testing' directories in my /etc/apt/sources.list. This and the
> apt-get update being done, I renewed my attempt with apt-get
> install. This time, it did start to install v1.3.8 of audacity. But
> I encountered a problem ! Before the end of install process, I got
> this message :
>
> "
> Configuring libc6
[...]
> Do you want to upgrade glibc now ?
> "
>
> I replied 'no', and, so far, I have not attempted to continue this
> install process of 'audacity' and the upgrade of glibc.
[...]
> Ever since then, I am encountering problems and error messages when
> trying to install something. For instance, if I do :
>
> #apt-get install gphoto2
>
> the install process starts... then :
>
> "
> Can't exec "locale": no file or directory of this type at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16.
> Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar
> chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17.
> dpkg : « ldconfig » not found in the variable PATH.
> dpkg: 1 expected program not found in the variable PATH.
> NB : the variable PATH of the superuser should contain
> /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin et /sbin.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
/usr/bin/locale and especially /sbin/ldconfig are important programs
which are part of the libc-bin package. Your aborted libc6 upgrade seems
to have removed this package (and possibly others), or something is
wrong with your $PATH.
Please post the output of this command
dpkg -l libc6\* libc-\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
so that we can see the status of libc-related packages on your system.
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Florian |
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