On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:46:49 +0200 Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:19 AM, P .NIKOLIC > <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Right after much faffing about i now have the box back to > > So if /lib is NOT a symlink, then all you should need is to delete all > the files in /usr/lib that are not owned by any package. Then you > should be able to upgrade. Hi . Right i have sort of put a list together but well see below .. :error: No package owns /usr/lib/libanl-2.16.so error: No package owns /usr/lib/libanl.so.1 error: No package owns /usr/lib/libBrokenLocale-2.16.so error: No package owns /usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 error: No package owns /usr/lib/libc-2.16.so error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/libcanberra-0.28' error: No package owns /usr/lib/libcidn-2.16.so error: No package owns /usr/lib/libcidn.so.1 error: No package owns /usr/lib/libcrypt-2.16.so error: No package owns /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.1 error: No package owns /usr/lib/libc.so.6 error: No package owns /usr/lib/libdl-2.16.so error: No package owns /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/libfakeroot' error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.11 error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/locale' error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/man-db' error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/mc' error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/modprobe.d' error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/modules' error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/modules-load.d' error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/mono' error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/mozilla' error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/mpg123' 1error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/mysql' error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/networkmanager' error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/ntrack' error: cannot determine ownership of directory '/usr/lib/ocaml' I have a huge number of the directory complaints are they ignoreable ..? Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.4.4-3-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 3 14:36:44 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux