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 %