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Not too long ago, on a Slackware box I needed to manually change glibc to another version. No problem, I thought, just remove the version that's there and install the package for the version I needed. So
removepkg glibc
and then immediately dawned on me.... oh wait I really didn't want to do that... Of course, after thatinstallpkg
and pretty much everything else was broken since pretty much everything either depends on glibc, or has a dependency that depends on glibc, so I couldn't install the new package or do pretty much anything other than smack my forehead.Wasn't actually too big of a deal to fix. Used another computer to create a bootable USB stick with the Slackware installer, booted the computer with the USB stick, and did some chroot trickery to reinstall the old glibc package again. Then booted it back up normally and used
upgradepkg
to change glibc like I should have in the first place.