Ihad the same problem a couple of days ago--the hard party was that the library was missing, so I couldn't upgrade to a working version. It tried to preconfigure, and then perl tanked with the same error message that you got. What I did was ftp to another machine, grab /usr/lib/libdb.so.3, and move it to the right place on the broken box. Then I immediately did an upgrade and the problem fixed itself with the upgrade (the package in question got upgraded, overwriting the bad version.
I think we need a bumper sticker that says "Use Unstable Debian--live by the seat of your pants." "P.J.Walsh" wrote: > dpkg is choking on some upgrades, showing libdb.so.3 missing... dpkg > -S doesn't help. To what does it belong? > > -- > Patrick Walsh > Edmonton AB CA > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
