[Cialug] HELP! I removed libc6!

[Dave Weis]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Bailey, Jonathan C wrote:

> Gah. I tried upgrading libc6. Then I decided to go back to the old 
> version. Problem is I figured I could do dpkg -r libc6 and apt-get 
> install libc6. Problem is that now nothing runs since it was linked to 
> the libc. Help!

rpm has an argument called --root to point it to a different root for 
situations like this. If dpkg can do that also, boot from a debian cd and 
mount your file systems under /mnt and run dpkg -i libc6 --root /mnt


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