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anthonie is offline anthonie
2013-01-14 , 01:23
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Well, I do keep doing "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" in order to update the packages. Sometimes, I use aptitude instead of directly calling apt-get.
Thats cool for you, but I believe this advice should always be accompanied by a thick hefty disclaimer. It simply isn't the same as a Debian distro. If I got a euro for every thread here on TMO, where things have gone bad for the OP's N900, and somewhere in the thread apt-get upgrade is being mentioned, I could buy myself another N900 second-hand from ebay.

Every time an uneducated person performs apt-get upgrade on a N900, Minerva chuckles and sighs.

However, since dpkg seems to be unable to work due to these errors, the user might have to unpack libc6 manually, to get ldconfig in the filesystem.
Possibly, at least worth a try. But that's only one problem we were able to identify. Of the others it is quite unclear what manual measures ought to be taken.
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