On 2010-05-11 22:11 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: > I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet > dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade > failed because libc-bin was not installed.
How could this happen, given that libc6 depends on libc-bin? > Now dpkg is broken. I > tried a manual reinstall of the lenny libc6, as suggested in another > thread on this list, but it did not work. The result was: > debian:/home/chris# dpkg -i libc6_2.7-18lenny2_i386.deb > 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. > > How can this be fixed? Use the "--force-bad-path" option, see "dpkg --force-help". > And shouldn't there be a big warning that trying to upgrade libc6 can > break dpkg, on the Debian website page for libc6? There is, actually this holds for any package: ,----[ http://packages.debian.org/en/squeeze/i386/libc6/download ] | If you are running Debian, it is strongly suggested to use a package | manager like aptitude or synaptic to download and install packages, | instead of doing so manually via this website. `---- Follow this advice and do not use dpkg directly if you don't know what you're doing. Especially not for required packages. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vdaujggp....@turtle.gmx.de
