libc6 messed up, no success recovering

2001-12-10 Thread Scott H. Hawley
I read with interest the thread removed libc6, how to recover on this list. (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/debian-user-22/msg02109.html) But the instructions didn't help me. Assuming the .deb of libc6 is still on your system (in /var/cache/apt/archives/), you might try booting

Re: libc6 messed up, no success recovering

2001-12-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:05:48PM +0100, Scott H. Hawley wrote: # dpkg --x /mnt/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6*deb /mnt /mnt/usr/bin/dpkg: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2.3' not found (required by /mnt/usr/bin/dpkg) Make sure you are using a rescue disk that corresponds to your running

Re: libc6 messed up, no success recovering

2001-12-10 Thread Scott H. Hawley
Ben, Thanks. Since my original aim was to downgrade my g++ from 2.95.4 to 2.95.2, I had briefly switched from woody to potato in order to get the older version of g++. Thus my system is currently a mix, and the libc file I'm trying to install is from the potato version, but the rest of my