Re: problem installing new packages

[Bernard <bdebreil@teaser.fr>]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 13:11:09 +0200, Bernard wrote:
>   
> > Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >     
> > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 19:06:41 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > >         
> > > > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 00:09:07 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> > > > >           
> > > > > > Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > > > >             
> > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 20:26:06 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> > > > > > >               
> > > > > > > > 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.
> > > > > > > >                 
>
> [...]
>
>   
> > Here is what I get :
> >
> >
> > root@new-host:/home/bd# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_*.deb
> > dpkg : « ldconfig » introuvable dans la variable PATH.
> > dpkg: 1 programme(s) attendu(s) introuvable(s) dans la variable PATH.
> > NB : la variable PATH du superutilisateur doit normalement contenir
> > /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin et /sbin.
> > root@new-host:/home/bd#
> >
> > Maybe I should run 'ldconfig' ?   I wouldn't dare to test this
> > without more knowledge ; I wouldn't know what options and arguments
> > to add.
> >     
>
> The problem is that ldconfig (and probably other important stuff) is
> missing on your system; dpkg wants to call ldconfig before it installs
> the libc6 package, therefore it is jammed. The next thing you can try is
> to split the installation into two steps:
>
> dpkg --unpack /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb
> dpkg --configure libc6
>
> That might work if "--unpack" does not require dpkg to run ldconfig;

It does... Therefore that doesn't work

>  I
> do not know the internals of dpkg well enough to judge the chances of
> success.
>
> If the above does not work then you may have to resort to manually
> extracting the files contained in libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb:
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch02.en.html#_extracting_package_without_dpkg
>
>   

So far I had no success with this process. If I go into 
'/var/cache/apt/archives' where my libc6 .deb files are, and type :

ar x libc6_2.9-26_i386.deb

I get nothing

> Alternatively you could try to fool dpkg by copying /bin/true to /sbin
> and then rename the copy to "ldconfig". Again I would not dare to
> predict the chances of success of this rather dirty trick.
>
>