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Re: still problems in 1.1



Carlos Carvalho writes ("still problems in 1.1"):
> The instructions for in-place upgrade don't mention how to compile
> things at all, and I'm finding that it's not so easy.
> 
> I installed the new binutils and gcc, but I'm missing crt1.o. It's in
> libc5-dev only, and it doesn't install because of conflicts with
> 4.6.27-6. It wants 4.6.27-11, that I can't find anywhere. Susan G.
> Kleinmann kindly put it for anon ftp and I got it. However it also has
> problems because it's specified as conflicting with libc! I used
> --force-conflicts and it APPARENTLY installs, but then "dpkg -s libc"
> produces
> 
> Package: libc
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: standard
> Section: devel
> Maintainer: Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>
> Version: 4.6.27-6
>                 ^
> So why dpkg doens't change it to 11??? This means that libc5-dev still
> doesn't install. I'd like to --purge libc, but then I'll have a
> "little" problem...

What precisely did you do, and what did dpkg say ?  You installed
something that you thought was libc 4.6.27-11 and it appeared to work
and dpkg -s libc gives the output above ?

This does seem unlikely to me ...

Ian.


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