Re: xlib6g

[Britton <fsblk@aurora.alaska.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> "David Z. Maze" wrote:
>   >
>   >Richard Sevenich <rsevenic@blinn.sirti.org> writes:
>   >RS> I would like to install a software package that requires
>   >RS> xlib6g. dpkg is loathe to install xlib6g with xlib6 already
>   >RS> installed. Can I safely remove xlib6 i.e.  will packages depending
>   >RS> on xlib6 accept xlib6g ... or? ...
>   >
>   >If you install the xlib6 from hamm, xlib6g should install fine.
>   >xlib6g is the glibc version of the X libraries, and libc5 programs
>   >won't run without the xlib6 package.
>   
> Upgrading to glibc (libc6) is not that simple.  It is a fundamental
> change which affects a lot of other things.  Especially, don't force
> anything or you may end up with an unuasable system.

But is this the correct thing to do once you have already (apparently
succesfully) followed the instructions in the howto?  I also have a
package which depends on xlib6g, which I hesitate to install in case it
breaks the other packages that I need.  I couldn't find an 'xlib6'
package anywhere in the hamm directory, including the oldlibs directory.
Any information on how to do this would be greatly appreciated, as I need
spice3 for one of my classes, and running it remotely over ppp gets old
very fast.

> 
> Look at:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html
> 
> and
> 
> http://www.debian.org/devel/autoup.sh
> 
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