Re: [SLUG] broken packages?

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2008 - 08:29:15 EST


On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Eben King wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Eben King wrote:
>
>> I restored /usr from (yesterday's) backup. Didn't fix X -- I still can't
>> run startx. Maybe it depends on something in / .

OK, I did the following:

restore / and /usr from the backup
started nvidia driver install (as I have to do every time I boot). It w ants
glibc header files.
  start aptitude; it says I need to run a dpkg command
   run "dpkg --configure -a"
  run aptitude, install glibc-client-dev. It complains that the version of
  <something> I'm installing (*2002) is not usable by Maildirs but is usable
  by uw-imapd. Since I use pine and have never heard of Maildirs, I told it
  to go ahead.
nvidia driver install
startx
rejoice

So probably when I try to update mplayer again, this'll happen again. I'll
just do it from runlevel 1 and maybe it'll succeed.

-- 
-eben    QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP    royalty.mine.nu:81

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