Re: 2020-04-19 debian-10.0-sparc64 NETINST working fine sort of but libc6-dev ???
On 2020-04-21 13:02, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/21/20 6:59 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Debian Ports has neither "contrib" nor "non-free".
Ah well, that certainly explains that. Seems deb-src does not exist
either.
No, because the sources are available on the main archives anyway:
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian main contrib non-free
oh. Excellent.
No, that works (see below). It's most likely your band-aid installation that
causes these problems.
Well I did open the cover of the machine to see that there was an IDE
interface in there but the cable needed seemed to be an odd width. The
front of the machine has a slot for a CDROM as well as a 4mm DAT tape
drive and I have neither of those. Would be great to try to boot from
tape again one day. Hardly practical :) The only way that I could figure
to boot the machine was to dd the netinst into a scsi disks cylinder 0
and then boot that from the firmware. When the installer asked where the
installation media was I simply entered manually /dev/sdb and everything
ran fine.
In any case the machine seems to be running fine and I am happy that I
did not need to resort to TFTP/BOOTp nonsense to get the installer
working. It all just worked out of the box and with an actual CRT type
old terminal attached to the ttya port there was no problem at all.
Try installing "libc6-dev" alone to see what the error message is. Normally,
apt will tell you what actually prevents it from installing packages.
Adrian
phobos# apt-get install libc6-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev : Depends: libc6 (= 2.30-2+sparc64) but 2.31-0+sparc64 is to
be installed
Depends: libc-dev-bin (= 2.30-2+sparc64) but it is not
going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
phobos#
Not sure what to make of that.
Dennis
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