Re: libc6
Hey, it's 'the man' hisself! :) I guess I'm a little shy about using
'force' now because that's what broke my system and a couple of people
told me to never do that (including Ben G.). The last time I did a force
on libc6, it seems to me that the packages looking for libc6 still
couldn't find it.
matty
Matt Thompson
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
> Someone messed up with the libc5 in the latest stable. It conflicts with
> libc6 for no reason, if you install libc6 with --force-conflicts it should
> work fine. You could also install the latest libc5 from unstable instead
> (better alternative if you intend to upgrade completely to unstable), but
> that is likely to force you down the altgcc/libc5-altdev path if you want
> to be able to compile libc5 stuff.
>
> On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
>
> > hello, all,
> >
> > OK, I'm reading the libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO from www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ.
> > It says, "Install these packages in exactly the order listed. ...any
> > later versions should also be acceptable."
> >
> > So, I installed ldso_1.9.5-1 using dpkg without incident. The next
> > package listed is libc6_2.0.4-1. Well, of course, that's no longer the
> > version that's available. It's now libc6_2.0.5c-0.1. So I downloaded
> > that and ran: dpkg -i . I received back an error saying it was
> > conflicting with libc5!
> >
> > BTW, I'm running on a fresh 1.3.1 install. I just re-installed last night
> > because I broke my system by removing libc5 so I could install libc6
> > *bigblush*. Oh, well, I learn as I go...:)
> >
> > What am I doing wrong here?
>
> --
> Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
>
>
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