From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) Subject: Re: [Q]Upgrading libc.so. Date: 28 Dec 1992 15:44:03 GMT
KIRSCH@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Kirsch) writes:
>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:
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!