Re: Apache - catch 22?

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

Hi Fun --

You said:
> Hi i just grabbed the "unstable" apache package.  I tried to install it 
> and it wouldnt because it need libc5 and libdbgm1 (?).  I grabbed these 
> packages installed libc5 and then tried installing libdbgm1, guess what, 
> libdbgm1 wont intsall because it wants version libc5-16 while i have 
> libc5-18.

dpkg --info libgdbm1_1.7.3-11.deb

yields:
...
Depends: libc5 (>=5.2.16-1)
...


The '>=' sign means that libgdbm1 depends on version/revisions equal to
or later than 5.2.16-1, so 5.2.18 should be fine.

Good luck,
Susan Kleinmann