Problem with apt / dpkg

[Michael Satterwhite]

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



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