Re: Help with libc6/libstdc++2.8

[Charles Collicutt <charles@collicutt.demon.co.uk>]

On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> The combination of dpkg 1.4.0.31 (or newer), libc6 2.0.7u-7.1 (or newer),
> libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-2 (or newer), libstdc++2.9 2.91.59-2 (or newer) should
> be fine.

Well I have libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-0.6 and libc6 2.0.7t-1 installed, however
dselect says libc6 2.0.7u-7.1 and libstdc++2.8 2.9.0.29-2 are available
but not installed. This is beacuse I get dependency conflicts and dpkg
won't install either package again as they apparently conflict with each
other and they are both supposedly installed. gcc isn't working so I
presume my installed version of libc6 is either not installed or broken,
but I can't install any libc6 package again as it conflicts with
libstdc++2.8... I've just solved this (it isn't very difficult), if you're
interested my solution follows:

I tried to install libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-2, this doesn't work but it is
sufficient to have replaced my old libstdc++2.8 package - if only with an
unconfigured one. Now that the old libstdc++2.8 is replaced I have a
package without the dependency bug installed so it will now let me install
libc6 2.0.7u-7.1, which in turn lets me configure libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-2.  

Thanks for the help.

-- 
Charles