Re: glibc

[Remco van de Meent <remco@oloon.student.utwente.nl>]

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote:

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 : On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
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 : > Hmm I should have know. I installed LinuxThreads a while ago, but I removed
 : > it when installing pthreads.
 : > And of course, right now, LinuxThreads refuses to compile..
 : > 
 : > Seems the include files in /usr/include ain't correct anymore...
 : 
 : LinuxThreads is integrated and included with libc6, there isn't a seperate
 : package to install.  If you've forced another thread lib dev package into
 : installing, that would definatly cause you problems.  You may want to
 : reinstall all of the affected lib and dev packages.

Hmm okay, but if I try to remove some packages (libc5-dev needs to be
removed before libc6-dev can be installed), it complains about for example
ncurses. Will ncurses still work when I replace libc5-dev by libc6-dev ?

[root@oloon:~]$ dpkg -r libc5-dev
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libc5-dev:
 libgdbm1-dev depends on libc5-dev.
 ncurses3.0-pic depends on libc5-dev.
 libg++27-dev depends on libc5-dev.
 ncurses3.0-dev depends on libc5-dev.
 libgd1-dev depends on libc5-dev.
 libdb1-dev depends on libc5-dev.
 tcl76-dev depends on libc5-dev (>= 5.4.0-0).
dpkg: error processing libc5-dev (--remove):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc5-dev


Is it too dangerous to use dpkg --force-xxxx ?

Remco.

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