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Re: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard



On 19-May-99 Brad wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> 
>> 
>> One big mistake can do it, but mine was a stupid big mistake.
>> Trying to install StarOffice on Potato, to be specific.  All of a sudden,
>> no
>> INIT, and I had to reinstall.
> 
> How did StarOffice install kill init?? ... Unless you went and installed
> the glibc 2.0.7 libraries that come with StarOffice (potato requires
> 2.1.1). Whenever you change library versions, be prepared for major
> breakage.

You guessed it.  Somehow, I did not think it would replace my system's
libraries, but it did.

--
Andrew


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