Re: No ldd?

1999-01-26 Thread Raja R Harinath
Morgan Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have no ldd executable. Please look at the `libc6' changelog.Debian. If it mentions that `ldso' needs to be re-installed, that is your problem. I think the `libc6' package provided the `ldd' binary for a short time.

Re: MD5sum in Packages (was: No ldd?)

1999-01-22 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 21 Jan 1999, Riku Saikkonen wrote: > George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Note that I am using the apt method of dselect using the round-robin > >mirrors so I have no idea which site I was really connected to when I got > >the bad .deb > > Does apt check the MD5sum of the package agai

Re: MD5sum in Packages (was: No ldd?)

1999-01-21 Thread Riku Saikkonen
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Note that I am using the apt method of dselect using the round-robin >mirrors so I have no idea which site I was really connected to when I got >the bad .deb Does apt check the MD5sum of the package against that in the Packages file? Does dpkg do that (I

Re: No ldd?

1999-01-21 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:50:04PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: : I just got a DIFFERENT copy of ldso and this one included ld. There is a : bad .deb going around someplace. Apparently. I just checked the ldso package on the master site (ftp.debian.org), and that one appears to be okay. But it

Re: No ldd?

1999-01-21 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:05:34AM -0800, Morgan Fletcher wrote: [...] > > !search ldd >potstickr: behold, ldd is in this package: base/libc6,base/ldso > +(/usr/bin/ldd) > > But neither of those packages, as installed on my system, contain ldd: > > $ dpkg -L ldso libc6 | grep -i ldd >

Re: No ldd?

1999-01-21 Thread Morgan Fletcher
Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd say reinstall the package, maybe went wrong during installation ? This > is really strange.. Debian doesn't let you uninstall base packages like libc6 or ldso, and I don't see a way to force a re-installation of an installed package. I wonder if

Re: No ldd?

1999-01-20 Thread Morgan Fletcher
Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's kinda strange. I assume, you mean with `current' the current slink > distribution. Yeah. astroman:/etc# cat /etc/debian_version 2.1 astroman:/etc# (apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade) 2>&1 | grep upgrade 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly i

Re: No ldd?

1999-01-20 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:05:34AM -0800, Morgan Fletcher wrote: : But neither of those packages, as installed on my system, contain ldd: : : $ dpkg -L ldso libc6 | grep -i ldd : /usr/lib/lddstub : /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz That's kinda strange. I assume, you mean with `current' the curr

No ldd?

1999-01-20 Thread Morgan Fletcher
I have no ldd executable. I installed slink onto a tabula rasa i386 PC a few days ago, using 3.5" floppies for the base system. Once I'd installed the base, I did an `apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade`. What I didn't realize, or think to look for, is that the slink base install i