On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:07:08 +0200, Ola Muan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all :-) > > I installed tomcat 3.2.3 on my potato box recently, and had to upgrade some > packages to make it work. Among these packages were libc6 (2.1.3-18 -> > 2.2.4-3) and libc6-dev (likewise). > > What I did not think about or even know, in fact, was that this would > "break" apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade. So I tried to "downgrade" these > packages, but there are, as you know, about one zillion packages that > depends on libc6. So dpkg refused to do anything. > > So i tried different things, without really knowing what I was doing, and > suddenly dpkg does not work at all, and I receive this error message: > > 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 and /sbin. > > So I checked root's PATH, and it was all there, but ldconfig was not found > anywhere. Disappeared. Gone. ldconfig should be in package libc6. > I don't know how it happened and how to fix it. So I'd appreciate any tips > from you guys! Worst comes to worst, you can try using "ar" to unpack the deb archive for libc6 and put ldconfig in /sbin. That may or may not be enough... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
