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Re: Updating system with ia32-apt-get



On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 07:13:35PM -0700, Norval Watson wrote:
> > From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
> 

[snip]

> > >> 
> > >> Using only "ia32-apt-get" for all things is recommended to avoid
> > >> unexpected results. But if you forget then the system won't blow up.
> > >> It is not dangerous.


So just for clarity, once I have installed ia32-apt-get, I should only
use ia32-apt-get and not apt-get.  I presume ia32-apt-get installs its
self such that if I use aptitude, aptitude calls ia32-apt-get ?

Alex

> > >> 
> > >> MfG
> > >>         Goswin
> > >
> > > Thanks for the clarification!
> > > When I run apt-get dist-upgrade and ia32-apt-get dist-upgrade I get stuck with
> > >
> > > E: Couldn't configure pre-depend libc6-i386 for lib32stdc++6, probably a 
> > dependency cycle.
> > >

[snip]

> > ia32-apt-get install libc6-i386
> > ia32-apt-get install lib32stdc++6
> > 
> > If that fails reverse the order. But I think I remembered it right.
> > If that still doesn't work come back.
> > 
> > If that worked then upgrade/dist-upgrade should work again (unless one
> > of the other lib32* packages hits the same bug). This is an apt /
> > lib32* bug though, nothing to do with ia32-apt-get. That's why you see
> > it in plain apt-get too.
> > 
> > MfG
> >         Goswin
> > 
> 
> Thanks Goswin, that worked perfectly and now my system is up to date.
> Norv
> 
> 
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