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Wani
2008-07-20, 06:19 PM
I have KUbuntu Linux, right. Came with my laptop. (I also have Windows installed on a seperate partition) For some reason, it didn't come with the networking stuff, so I had to download each package and install them all manually, then download each package that the packages depending on and install those. This included libc6. So I downloaded that, tried to install it, it gave me an error. I tried for a while to fix the error, then had the (so I thought) brilliant idea of uninstalling libc6 and reinstalling it from scratch. What I didn't expect was that this sorta broke everything. Just about everything (Hell, even reboot) depends on libc6 in a far greater way than I expected. This has left me completely unable to reinstall libc6 or, well, reboot my computer short of hitting the power button.

Is this one of those "I should just reinstall Linux" problems, or is there a boot disk out there that will let me run dpkg and install libc6 again?

Spaz
2008-07-20, 06:35 PM
Burn a Kubuntu CD, boot off it, fix stuff from there.