Re: Pine
John wrote:
> on 08 Nov 99, jaldhar@debian.org wrote...
>
> >On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, John wrote:
> >
> >> Also, Pine depends on libc6 >=2.1 (my slink has 2.0.7) and libncurses
> >> 4 >=4.2-3.1 (I only have 4.2-3). Neither of these am I unable to find.
> >
> >I guess I should have made it clearer but the .debs I made were for potato
> >not slink.
>
> I'm a little confused here. If 3.96 was the last version distributed by
> Debian, why cannot I install it without the three files demanded by 4.20
Because the package compiled for potato wants shared libraries of the version
found on potato. Taking the same source and buiulding it for slink would
yield equivalent dependencies (e.g. libc6) but of a lower version (or no
version at all).
> Could my attempt to
> install 4.20 have left some 'memory or record' so that 3.96 decides it
> would like them too?
No.
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