Re: libc6-sparc64 problem

[Martin <inkubus@interalpha.co.uk>]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 22:39, Terjek Bela wrote:
> I had problems with apt-get upgrade-ing on my SunV100 today, and I 
> could not fix it so far.
> It seems that both libc6-sparc64_2.2.5-11.8_sparc and gcc-3.0 refers to 
> /lib/64 and this is a problem (according to apt at least, I don't 
> know...)
<snip>
> can anyone offer me a solution?
<snip>
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-sparc64_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb (--unpack):
>   trying to overwrite `/lib/64', which is also in package gcc-3.0
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-sparc64_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I had a similar problem with security updates to the 64 bit version of
libc-dev.  It seems the /lib/64 symlink is 'owned' by a number of
packages.  Forcing the install seemed to solve the immediate problem
however in the longer term I guess there needs to be a consistant view
on which package(s) it's in.

Cheers,
 - Martin
 
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Martin
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