Re: upgrading libc6

[Cheng Tang <ctang@uiuc.edu>]

I tried this. But it still doesn't work. :(

-cheng

On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 10:14:51PM +0000, David Coe wrote:
> have you tried doing both at the same time?  i.e.
>  
>   dpkg -i libc6_2.0.7u-6.deb sysvinit_2.76-2.deb
> 
> ctang@uiuc.edu wrote:
> > 
> > I want to upgrade libc6 from 2.0.7t to 2.0.7u to use apt and wine.
> > But when I type: " dpkg -i libc6_2.0.7u-6.deb  ", it prompts
> > 
> >   libc6 conflicts with sysvinit (<< 2.75)
> >    sysvinit (version 2.72-3) is installed.
> >   dpkg: error processing libc6_2.0.7u-6.deb (--install):
> >    conflicting packages - not installing libc6
> > 
> > So, I grab sysvinit_2.76-2.deb and try to install it, now I have
> > another problem:
> > 
> >   sysvinit pre-depends on libc6 (>= 2.0.7u)
> >     libc6 latest configured version is 2.0.7t-1.
> >   dpkg: error processing sysvinit_2.76-2.deb (--install):
> >    pre-dependency problem - not installing sysvinit
> > 
> > By now, I have no clue to solve this. Can anyone help me
> > out?  Thanks a lot.
> > 
> > -cheng
> > 
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