Re: apt oddity

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>]

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 ski@tgs-home.research.bell-labs.com wrote:

> 
> howdy,
> 
> there is some sort of bug in the version of libstdc++2.9 in my system, so i
> extracted the archive to a temporary folder and manually copied the necessary
> files in to /usr/lib and /usr/doc to make things work. now when i run
> apt-get upgrade, it tells me:
> 
> 2 packages not fully installed or removed.
> 8751762,8625568
> How odd.. The sizes didn't match, email apt@packages.debian.org
> 
> so, there. i emailed you.

How odd, do you have a copy of /var/lib/dpkg/status from before you ran
apt (or the current one if it still does it?)

Thanks,
Jason