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Re: [Debian] can't upgrade from slink to potato



On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:19:46PM -0500, Brad wrote:

> You may not have much luck installing potato debs on a slink system, since
> potato uses glibc 2.1 while slink has 2.0, and nearly everything depends
> on glibc (aka libc6). You could always download the sources from potato
> and try compiling them on your slink system...

Alternatively, just apt-get install the packages you actually want new
versions of.  glibc2.1 is pretty stable, and so long as you don't try to
upgrade perl things should be just fine.

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