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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: [Q]Upgrading libc.so.
- Message-ID: <9236402.1513@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Keywords: libc.so linux Library
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <KIRSCH.30.725552731@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:44:03 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- KIRSCH@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Kirsch) writes:
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- >Upgrading from libc.so.4.1 to 4.2 isn't that easy. [...]
- >In order to make a new link, I removed the old one and uups ... I could not
- >do anything else. Of course! [...]
- >My question is: Have I overseen some simpler possibility of procedure?
-
- Yes. Use the -f options to ln. For example:
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- ln -sf libc.so.4.2 libc.so.4
-
- --
- Fergus Henderson fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
- This .signature virus is a self-referential statement that is true - but
- you will only be able to consistently believe it if you copy it to your own
- .signature file!
-