Ok, but I don't understand why I can't just grab the rpms, and then upgrade
what I have installed, using kpackage or rpm. Which is why I didn't read the
readme or install files - didn't think I had to do an install. That's what I
get for thunking . . .
Anyhow I wrote down the error messages, and did some tracking:
INIT: version 2.76 booting
sh: error in loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4.0: cannot open shared
object file: no such file or directory
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
bash: error in loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4.0: cannot open
shared object file: no such file or directory
INIT cannot execute "/etc/X11/prefdm"
(it then goes into a respawning loop and eventually quits trying.)
Now, using a Debian CD I have lying around I went in and mounted /usr/lib and
I found libreadline.so.4.0. I even cp'd it to / hoping that this would put it
unmistakably in the path. Guess not. So which file can I edit to make it
explicitly point to libreadline? I THINK (and that hurts!) it will fix my
problem.
Thanks so much for the help!!
Ty
"Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To do the upgrade, you will need to download the entire contents of the
/Mandrake folder. You will need to make a boot disk to run the
instalation program. From DOS or Windoz, you can do this with the
boot.img file from the Images folder on the FTP site, and rawrite (not
sure of the spelling of names) from the DOSUTILS folder. Run rawrite
while loged into the directory which contains the rawrite utility, and
folow the on screen prompts. With a floppy in drive A: , rawrite will
produce a boot disk for Linux. Boot from the boot disk you just made,
then when the install program runs, select the "update" option, not the
"install" one. This will update your current instalation, and hopefully
fix any errors you may now be encountering. Also note that the people at
Mandrake are kind enough to provide "readme" files. I make it a practice
to always read these things, as they usually keep me out of trouble, or
at least reduce the depth of trouble I get myself into. There is a
Readme file and a INSTALL file. Read 'em both. They may help.
Good luck,
Ernie
Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote:
>
> Ok, I downloaded all the packages from 6.1. I then went thru and tried to
> install them all using kpackage. Some, no matter what I did, would always
> give me unsatisfied depends - even tho I JUST installed those depends!
>
> So I reboot, thinking that will wake up kpackage - Instead I get "Can't
start
> <something>" It was lookingin X11R6/.../predfm(?). I know, I know, I
don't
> have the whole error msg. This happened to me when I tried to use autorpm
> too. Same msg's.
>
> I'm using my web based email account from a Windoze machine so I don't have
> access to the errors. If anyone can tell me:
>
> A) What went wrong, and
>
> B) How to prevent it, and
>
> C) How to reinstall w/o losing anything, I'd Really Really love it!!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ty
>
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