Conflicts make APT useless
Hi, I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had the same problems as many. i.e. * libdb.so.3 not found * ldconfig disappears But now my apt (dselsct and gnome-apt) shows many unsolved dependencies which become very confusing and difficult to solve. Most notable is the requirement of libdb2 by many packages. However libdb2 conflicts with my libc6, so there is nothing I can do. How do I persuade my apt programs to work again, as I am fed up of downloading individual packages that turn out to have interdependencies that are too difficult to solve with dpkg? Tom
Re: Conflicts make APT useless
Hello, Thanks for your promt reply. Much appreciated. I didn't quite understand this: I fixed this with a link to a libdb?.so in /lib via /lib/libdb.so.3, and after that, the upgrade to a new libdb worked. Do I just install libdb and manually link libdb2.so.3 back to the new libc6.so. Is this right? LISTING-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] tom]$ ls /lib/libdb* -l -rw-r--r--1 root root 237708 Sep 30 05:52 /lib/libdb-2.1.94.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 Oct 4 15:06 /lib/libdb.so.2 - libdb1-2.1.94.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 15 Oct 4 15:06 /lib/libdb.so.3 - libdb-2.1.94.so -rw-r--r--1 root root50876 Sep 30 05:52 /lib/libdb1-2.1.94.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 Oct 4 15:06 /lib/libdb1.so.2 - libdb1-2.1.94.so Thomas Halahan wrote: Hi, I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had the same problems as many. i.e. * libdb.so.3 not found * ldconfig disappears But now my apt (dselsct and gnome-apt) shows many unsolved dependencies which become very confusing and difficult to solve. Most notable is the requirement of libdb2 by many packages. However libdb2 conflicts with my libc6, so there is nothing I can do. How do I persuade my apt programs to work again, as I am fed up of downloading individual packages that turn out to have interdependencies that are too difficult to solve with dpkg?
Re: Conflicts make APT useless
Thomas Halahan wrote: Hello, Thanks for your promt reply. Much appreciated. I didn't quite understand this: I fixed this with a link to a libdb?.so in /lib via /lib/libdb.so.3, and after that, the upgrade to a new libdb worked. Do I just install libdb and manually link libdb2.so.3 back to the new libc6.so. Is this right? The perl script for dpkg --preconfigure (called by dselect) bombed because libdb.so.3 was missing, due to a less-than-perfectly- organized package, I'm sure. I could start up dselect, but couldn't do anything, IIRC. So I symlinked the missing lib to a lib of a similar name, and finished my upgrade, which included, IIRC, libdb2.so.3 . I had to do this linking _before_ I could install the new libdb, or anything, for that matter. I'm sure my method is cheating, and may be considered heretical and/or dangerous, but it worked. LISTING-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] tom]$ ls /lib/libdb* -l -rw-r--r--... /lib/libdb-2.1.94.so lrwxrwxrwx... /lib/libdb.so.2 - libdb1-2.1.94.so lrwxrwxrwx... /lib/libdb.so.3 - libdb-2.1.94.so ^^ I don't remember that specific -2.1.94., but this is in the nature of what I did. I see '-2.1.94.' on the Debian/sparc host, which is my desktop, FWIW. -rw-r--r--... /lib/libdb1-2.1.94.so lrwxrwxrwx... /lib/libdb1.so.2 - libdb1-2.1.94.so Thomas Halahan wrote: Hi, I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had the same problems as many. i.e. * libdb.so.3 not found... -- Bolan Timothy Lewis Meek Unix Systems Administrator Romac/Sarcom/MCI-WorldCom: 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Flying M Ranch: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Conflicts make APT useless
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Thomas Halahan wrote: I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had the same problems as many. i.e. * libdb.so.3 not found * ldconfig disappears But now my apt (dselsct and gnome-apt) shows many unsolved dependencies which become very confusing and difficult to solve. Most notable is the requirement of libdb2 by many packages. However libdb2 conflicts with my libc6, so there is nothing I can do. How do I persuade my apt programs to work again, as I am fed up of downloading individual packages that turn out to have interdependencies that are too difficult to solve with dpkg? Er generally you just do as it says, apt-get -f install and it will magically figure it out, unless things have become so tangled that a solution is not apparent [this is really rare though]. In that case you must add packages to install by hand after the 'install' until things are better. Sounds to me like you just need to install libc6 and libdb2. Jason
