urgent help needed--can't start a shell!

1999-03-23 Thread Eric Lee
Hi, In an earlier plea for help, I mentioned that after using dselect, I ran into some dependency problems, which also screwed up bash/sh. It was suggested that I use the rescue floppy and run dpkg manually to fix things up -- unfortunately, right now, the rescue floppy isn't helping at all, bec

help -- missing shared library libncurses.so.4

1999-03-22 Thread Eric Lee
Hi, I've been running Debian 2.0 happily until earlier this evening, when I ran dselect to upgrade my current packages. After retrieving and attempting to install the upgraded packages, however, something royally screwed up and now I get a "can't open libncurses.so.4 - no such file or directory"