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I recently downloaded the latest Debian dist
(hamm I believe) from the debian.org website. I did this after realizing that
the dist that came on a cd I have is about a year or so old. I wanted the latest
stable kernel/apps/etc..... I'm new to Linux but was able to install
my original dist with little trouble and was able to download the proper X
server and get twm up and running. Then I decided to download fvwm95 and window
maker to have a more elegant front end to X. In addition I found that I needed
the latest ppp package as well. After many painful attempts I could not get
these packages to install so this lead me to finding the entire dist. Well, none
of the packages will install because they apparently depend on libc6, but this
conflicts with libc5 which some of the other apps depend on. In fact, dpkg
wouldnt even let me remove libc5 because of this. Is it OK to remove libc5? I'm
assuming I have the latest versions of the apps that need libc5 in the new dist
and that they depend on libc6. Is this the case?
Tom Persons
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