The library you need is libdb3. After you get libdb3 installed, I'd say your next target is perl. potato->woody hangs up nowadays on the libdb3 transition, making perl 5.6 a PITA, but everything that uses perl is moved to perl 5.6. I'm thinking you'll be able to go along nicely with libdb3.
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >i recently tried (and so far failed) to install printtool... and in the >process i seemed to have wiped out gnome... here's what happened: >i'm running 2.2r3 so i had to upgrade a lot of libraries, ect. to get to the >point where i had all the nessicary files to dpkg printtool... (one file that >printtool required would require 2 or 3 more files of its own) and somewhere >between installing some new c libraries and lpr-ppd i seem to have removed >some important gnome packages. I tried to dselect the packages to reinstall >but it keeps getting hung up by the fact that i don't have this library that >it needs: 'libdb.so.3' i've searched the package directory for it as well as >'libdb.so' and gotten nothing... libdb returns like 700 results and i can't >browse all of those for something resembling that library. so here's what i >need to know: >1. where do i get that library > >2. since i've got lines in .xinitrc to start gmc and the toolbar and neither >one of them start, what's the most likely file that would've gotten >uninstalled by dselect while installing some c libraries and printtool (and >its reqired files)? > >well, i guess that last one isn't essential, but i'm really starting to get >bothered by this printer that linuxdoc.org says will work 'perfectly' but >won't even do an >'lptest > /dev/usb/lp0' ... did that letter i sent a/b it earlier make it >through my slow connection? > >anyway, i'm almost as confused as i was when i first started installing this >crazy OS, so any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks! > > > -- There is no problem so great that it cannot be solved with suitable application of High Explosives. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!