On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > l�rdagen den 16 november 2002 18.34 skrev Robert Tilley: > > > The file libstdc++1.2.something.so disappeared which caused attempts to use > > aptitude or apt-get to fail. As I'm inexperienced with solely using dpkg > > for system maintenance, I perform a complete reinstall of Debian. > > Something similar happened to me, once, but I somehow managed to loose libc6, > which caused ALL programs to fail, including dpkg, cp, ls and all that. > > I really think that dpkg and apt-get should be statically linked, so such > disasters can't happen..... Maybe that's a good precation, to always build > dpkg and apt-get from source, and make it static?
I don't know dpkg enough to tell, but apt-get is using external programs that means you'd possibly have to build those statically as well at which point it's easier to burn or get yourself a copy of the knoppix cd [1] or similar and just copy a new libc in place. *t [1] http://www.knoppix.de/, they will even mail you a copy. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek SourcePole - Linux & Open Source Solutions http://sourcepole.ch Elestastrasse 18, 7310 Bad Ragaz, Switzerland Tel: +41 (81) 330 77 11 -----------------------------------------------------------
