Re: How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

2003-11-01 Thread Jakob Lell
On Saturday 01 November 2003 16:10, Rob Weir wrote: > "dpkg-deb -X libc6_from_debian_not_suse.deb > /place/you/mounted/your/broken/system" dpkg can install packages in a chrooted environment: dpkg --root=/path/to/your/system -i libc6_from_debian.deb Regards Jakob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:19:06AM -0600, John Foster said > I did a real dumb thing without thinking. I grabbed a .rpm of glibc > 2.3.9 from SuSE, converted it to a .deb with alien and installed it. Of > course I forgot that libc6 is the debian way of handeling this > dependency (see locales; u

How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

2003-11-01 Thread John Foster
I did a real dumb thing without thinking. I grabbed a .rpm of glibc 2.3.9 from SuSE, converted it to a .deb with alien and installed it. Of course I forgot that libc6 is the debian way of handeling this dependency (see locales; unstable) Yeah it was VERY late. Any way it broke the entire system.