Re: Packages depending on each other
On Sep 30, Eloy A. Paris wrote
> I am just taking a look at libpam0 to see how hard it would be to
> port them to libc6 and have just found that libpam0 depends on
> libpam-util and libpam-util depends on libpam0. How's this possible?
Because the maintainer specified the dependencies that way.
> What does this mean?
It means that you have to install them in one go of dpkg:
dpkg -i libpam0*deb libpam-util*deb
There is some discussion about this in the libpam0 bug reports:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/llibpam0.html
HTH,
Ray
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