Re: dpkg disaster recovery

2002-01-28 Thread kar
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:49:45PM -0500, Thomas Shemanske wrote: > Yes, nice hole you've dug... :-) The nice thing about debian is that there's always someone willing to throw you you a rope :) The unfortunate thing about rope is that if you slip it's all too easy to hang yourself from it

dpkg disaster recovery

2002-01-28 Thread kar
Hi, Perhaps someone could help with my problem: I run potato, but wanted to upgrade the whois from the stable whois_4.4.14.deb to the unstable whois_4.5.19_i386.deb. In order to achieve this, I ran the following commands (to meet the required dependencies): % dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-1_i386.deb %

Re: Dpkg Disaster

2001-08-08 Thread JakeCatfox
I decided to just reinstall Debian. No big deal.. I have all my stuff on CD-Rs. -- Deven

Re: Dpkg Disaster

2001-08-08 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was trying to install some packages, using Force, and now when I try to use > dpkg, I get the following errors: > > dpkg: 'ldconfig' not found on PATH. > dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > NB: root's PATH should usually contain

Re: Dpkg Disaster

2001-08-08 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 08 Aug 2001 03:17:58 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was trying to install some packages, using Force, and now when I try to use > dpkg, I get the following errors: > > dpkg: 'ldconfig' not found on PATH. > dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > NB: root's PATH should usually con

Re: Dpkg Disaster

2001-08-08 Thread JakeCatfox
I added all the paths to the PATH line in /etc/profile, but it was already there in the home dir file. Didn't help. What should I do? -- Deven

Dpkg Disaster

2001-08-08 Thread JakeCatfox
I was trying to install some packages, using Force, and now when I try to use dpkg, I get the following errors: 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. All those dirs exist and