Re: perl

["Susan G. Kleinmann" <sgk@sgk.tiac.net>]

Hi Todd --

You said:
> why does 'libc-dev' have a conflicting dependency with 'libc5' ??  It won't
> let him install libc5-dev for some odd reasion.


dpkg --info libc5-dev_5.2.18-9.deb
yields

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DEPENDS: libc5 (=5.2.18-9)
CONFLICTS: libc (<<4.6.27-11), libc-dev, pthreads-dev
PROVIDES: libc-dev, pthreads1-dev, pthreads-dev
RECOMMENDED: binutils, gcc
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I don't see the conflict between libc5-dev and libc5, just a conflict
between libc5-dev and the version 4 libraries (libc and libc-dev),
(as well as a conflict between libc5-dev and pthreads-dev).

Susan Kleinmann