> Over the last few days, I have upgraded a (work) machine from > 0.93r6 to 1.1 beta using Dale Scheetz's manual dpkg instructions. > All went smoothly except for libc4. I upgraded dpkg from aout to > elf & tried again with the results below. Any ideas ? > thanks > cm > nb - After above, i patched the 1.2.13 kernel to elf, recompiled and > rebooted ok... From memory, /lib contains the libc4 contents as expected. > ---- > linux96:/home/debian# dpkg -i --force-conflicts > unstable/devel/libc4-4.6.27-14.deb > dpkg: considering removing libc in favour of libc4 ... > libc is not properly installed - ignoring any dependencies on it. > dpkg: yes, will remove libc in favour of libc4. > (Reading database ... 13471 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking libc4 (from unstable/devel/libc4-4.6.27-14.deb) ... > ln: libc.so.4.6.27.save: No such file or directory > ln: libm.so.4.6.27.save: No such file or directory > ln: libcurses.so.0.1.2.save: No such file or directory > ln: libdb.so.1.85.1.save: No such file or directory > rm: linux: is a directory > dpkg: error processing unstable/devel/libc4-4.6.27-14.deb (--install): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > unstable/devel/libc4-4.6.27-14.deb > linux96:/home/debian#
Could you please retry this with dpkg 1.1.6. David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081