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Re: elf notes



On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Mark W. Eichin wrote:

> [...]
> >   dpkg --install dpkg-V.deb
> >   dpkg --install ld.so-V.deb
> >   dpkg --remove elf-<...>
> dpkg --list elf\* didn't show any of these -- I'm really running 93.6 a.out...

Fair enough ... no point removing them if you didn't have them :-).

> >   dpkg --remove libc
> > At this point dpkg did not remove libc.
> 
> In my case, it didn't remove it because it claimed gcc still depended
> on it. Given the following, was this step even necessary?

I think it is necessary - libc4 wouldn't automatically replace libc, and 
I'm not sure you'd be able to install it without this step ...

> >   dpkg --install --auto-deconfigure libc4-V.deb
> > Now dpkg replaced libc with libc4.
> >   dpkg --install libc5-V.deb

Nikhil.


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