On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:35:24AM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >i recently tried (and so far failed) to install printtool... and in the > >process i seemed to have wiped out gnome... here's what happened: > >i'm running 2.2r3 so i had to upgrade a lot of libraries, ect. to get to the > >point where i had all the nessicary files to dpkg printtool... (one file that > >printtool required would require 2 or 3 more files of its own) and somewhere > >between installing some new c libraries and lpr-ppd i seem to have removed > >some important gnome packages. I tried to dselect the packages to reinstall > >but it keeps getting hung up by the fact that i don't have this library that > >it needs: 'libdb.so.3' i've searched the package directory for it as well as > >'libdb.so' and gotten nothing... libdb returns like 700 results and i can't > >browse all of those for something resembling that library. so here's what i > >need to know: > > The library you need is libdb3.
Confusingly, it's not. You need libdb2. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]