Over the last few days, I have upgraded a (work) machine from 0.93r6 to 1.1 beta using Dale Scheetz's manual dpkg instructions. All went smoothly except for libc4. I upgraded dpkg from aout to elf & tried again with the results below. Any ideas ? thanks cm nb - After above, i patched the 1.2.13 kernel to elf, recompiled and rebooted ok... From memory, /lib contains the libc4 contents as expected. ---- linux96:/home/debian# dpkg -i --force-conflicts unstable/devel/libc4-4.6.27-14.deb dpkg: considering removing libc in favour of libc4 ... libc is not properly installed - ignoring any dependencies on it. dpkg: yes, will remove libc in favour of libc4. (Reading database ... 13471 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libc4 (from unstable/devel/libc4-4.6.27-14.deb) ... ln: libc.so.4.6.27.save: No such file or directory ln: libm.so.4.6.27.save: No such file or directory ln: libcurses.so.0.1.2.save: No such file or directory ln: libdb.so.1.85.1.save: No such file or directory rm: linux: is a directory dpkg: error processing unstable/devel/libc4-4.6.27-14.deb (--install): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: unstable/devel/libc4-4.6.27-14.deb linux96:/home/debian#
linux96:/home/debian# dpkg -s libc Package: libc Status: deinstall ok half-installed Priority: standard Section: devel Maintainer: Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 4.6.27-6 Config-Version: 4.6.27-6 Provides: libc.so.4 Depends: includes | source Recommends: binutils, gcc Suggests: glibcdoc, manpages Description: The Linux C library. linux96:/home/debian# dpkg -s libc4 Package: libc4 Status: install ok not-installed Section: devel Maintainer: David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: libc4 Version: 4.6.27-14 Replaces: libc Provides: libc, libc.so.4 Conflicts: libc Description: The Linux C library version 4 (run-time libraries). Includes shared libraries needed to run programs built with libc 4. linux96:/home/debian# dpkg -s libc5 Package: libc5 Status: install ok installed Section: base Maintainer: David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: libc5 Version: 5.2.18-5 Provides: elf-libc Pre-Depends: ldso (>=1.7.14-2) Conflicts: elf-libc Description: The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libraries). linux96:/home/debian# dpkg -s dpkg Package: dpkg Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Maintainer: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.1.5elf Replaces: dpkgname Pre-Depends: libc5 (>=5.2.18-2), ncurses3.0 Conflicts: dpkgname Description: Package maintenance system for Debian GNU/Linux This package contains the programs which handle the installation and removal of packages on your system.