Re: libc6-dev versus libncurses4-dev
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 07:11:58AM +0100, Ulrich Hansmair wrote:
> > hi debian-freaks,
> >
> > currently I installed potato with downloaded install-disks. Then I got me a
> > few tiny things like less, .... with apt-get. I´ m not very experienced with
> > linux, but it worked fine.
> >
> > Now I wanna compile me a kernel. So I got me all the needed packages (gcc,...).
> > As I wanna use "make menuconfig" I tried to install the package libncurses4-dev
> > (with dpkg -i). This resulted in a dependency error with package libc6-dev.
> > This dependency problem exists also the other way round.
> >
> > What I m doing wrong? Even the --force-depends option of dpkg brought no
> > solution. Can anybody give me a hint?
>
> Install both at once if you are using dpkg (dpkg -i foo.deb bar.deb ...).
> Or better yet, continue to use apt-get.
This was the solution. Thank you Ben.
So, if packages are mutual dependant they have to be installed at once? Is this
a bug or a feature? Do you have some background about this?
regards
uli
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