Re: [PLUG] fixing apt-get wierdness (solved)

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:22:50AM -0500, Fred K Ollinger said:

> I got the same troubles on my 'beater box'.
> 
> I'm running a slightly older unstable glibc on my 'stable' box.
> 
> scp libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so root@unstable_box:.
> 
> Next remove old, broken symlink (might not need to do this):
> 
> rm -f /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
> 
> Now fix the symlink:
> 
> ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
> 
> I'm apt-get upgrading (to unstable) as we speak. Let's up there's no more
> brokeness for now. :)
> 
> Fred Ollinger (follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
> CCN sysadmin

ln -sf does that in one step, IIRC.  Just watch out for the bonobo mess
with GNOME2 in your upgrade - try to keep old copies of those .debs
around, in case something won't start.  It looks like it's just
gnome-session, but I don't know what else may be affected.
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