On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:23:08PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:06:56PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > > I have dselect in somewhat of a mess, having a number of programs > > 'in limbo' (including libc6). Trying to downgrade libc6, I got > > the same error message to that below - (this actual error was > > obtained by trying to remove a program I don't need to see if > > there's an overall problem with ldconfig). > > The paths are in fact correct. > > > > ------ > > # dpkg -r elvis-tiny > > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. > > dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > > NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin > > ------ > > > > I don't know which program provides the command 'ldconfig'. Can > > anyone enlighten me please. > > Sounds to me like you upgraded to libc6 2.2, and then tried to go back > to 2.1.x.
Yes that's exactly what I did. > You need to reinstall ldso. Download it from potato, and do > this: > > dpkg --force-bad-path -i ldso.deb > > That should fix your problem. > It has indeed. I'm starting (at last) to get some understanding, but, although I've looked hard at man dpkg, I don't think I would ever have tried that. Suppose it's another case of 'no substitute for experience'. Now for the remainder of the mess! Many thanks, Ben. Regards, John. .
