Awful problem with dpkg (once again)

1997-06-20 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
a lot, M. S. - Original message Hi: Trying to upgrade the machine of a colegue, I found and awful problem with dpkg I haven't managed to deal with. Apparently, the package database got corrupted somehow, preventing me from upgrading any package. For example, if I try to upgrade libc5

Awful problem with dpkg

1997-06-18 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Hi: Trying to upgrade the machine of a colegue, I found and awful problem with dpkg I haven't managed to deal with. Apparently, the package database got corrupted somehow, preventing me from upgrading any package. For example, if I try to upgrade libc5 with dpkg -i libc5_5.4.23-6.deb I