On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:34:08PM -0500, Robert Tilley scrawled: > I'm posting this to the list because a problematic state of my machine > occured > after an update of KDE 3.1b2. > > 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. > > I'm still in the process of restoring all of my applications. I know that a > complete reinstall is reminiscent of M$ Window$ and I wonder if I could have > fixed my problems. > > (Yes, I did neglect to back up my /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf, > /etc/apt/sources.list and execute a "dpkg -l > old-application-list" but > that's another matter... Live and learn.) > > Can anyone chime in with a way I might have avoided the catastrophic solution > I chose?
See http://www.debianplanet.org. The gcc-2.95 maintainer fucked libstdc++ up. Badly. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer - http://kopete.kde.org, http://www.kde.org
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