karniv0re's Journal: Fixing APT

APT broke on me the other day. I got an ugly error telling me it couldn't upgrade libc6 because it was trying to overwrite the same folder that nspluginwrapper was in.

Fuck you, I said. Do it anyway. So I tried moving my softlink for libc6. That broke my whole machine. I had to go in with Slax and recreate the link.

Then I found a nice little piece on linuxquestions.org that said this:

Ok, try to download libc deb package (are you running testing or stable?) and force installation with dpgk -i --force-overwrite

Well, the error told me where the package was. So I went for it:

$ cd /var/cache/apt/archives
$ sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite libc6_2.3.6.ds1-13etch5_amd64.deb

ding ding ding! We have a winrar!

Also, I got b& on 4chan. Installing Tor to get around it.