<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">First, the admission of stupidity: I was having trouble getting myodbc (the ODBC driver for MySQL) going, so decided to try installing it from their website. I've used alien before without problems, so I thought the easiest way would be to get the rpm and use alien to put it in. MAJOR ERROR At this point, I'm getting errors anytime I try to run apt or dpkg. It appears I have the package half installed, and I can't figure out how to either get it the rest of the way on - or get it completely off. Either would be a fix. I've even tried using "sudo dpkg --purge mysql-connector-odbc" to no avail. Can anyone help? Here is a session: Removing mysql-connector-odbc ... myodbc-installer: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory myodbc-installer: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing mysql-connector-odbc (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 chown: invalid user: `mysqldev:mysqldev' chown: invalid user: `mysqldev:mysqldev' chown: invalid user: `mysqldev:mysqldev' myodbc-installer: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory myodbc-installer: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: mysql-connector-odbc Thanks much </body></html>