Re: libc6 and apt-get upgrade

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

> Earlier I tried to 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' my system (an
> Ultra2 running 2.4.18 SMP) and I get an error pertaining to the newer
> version of libc6 and gcc-3.0 (error listed below).  I think someone
> else mentioned this problem earlier, but couldn't find if a resolution
> was reached.  Thanks in advance.
<snip>
> Preparing to replace libc6-sparc64 2.2.5-11.5 (using .../libc6-sparc64_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libc6-sparc64 ...
> dpkg: error processing /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
On my system (Debian Stable) /lib/64 is a symlink to '../lib64'.  Having
a look through the info packages it now seems to be owned by
"libc6-sparc64" but before the update I think it was owned by several
packages (I think gcc-3.0 libc6-sparc64 and libc6-sparc-64-dev).

Forcing the install of the new packages seemed to fix the error messages
and nothing else evil has happened so far ... :-)

HTH

Cheers,
 - Martin
 
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Martin
inkubus@interalpha.co.uk
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