Re: glibc package
So for now, what should I do? Should I just force it to ignor dependencies? Or may be
someone can point me to the location of binary file for libc6. I can try to install then
manually. But I really need libc6 or I'm dead in the water.
Thanks,
Fred R.
Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> Unforunately, this is not the case. In this case, libc *Pre*
> depends on deibanutils, and debianutils *Pre* depends on libc.
> I have already submitted a bug report against libc.
>
> This little bug will prevent apt to upgrade from slink to
> potato, becuase apt-get cannot resolve the predependency loop.
>
> Shao.
>
> David Z. Maze [dmaze@mit.edu] wrote:
> > Fred R <frahmanian@sourcetechcorp.com> writes:
> > Fred> I'm trying to install the package to upgrade the glibc 2.1.3 on my
> > Fred> machine but I get a message that I need to install debinnutils first. So
> > Fred> I tried to install that package and it tells me the I need to upgrade my
> > Fred> libc to >=2.1. So what do I do now? Which comes first chicken or egg?
> >
> > "Yes." This will work fine if you put them both on the same command
> > line, e.g. 'dpkg --install libc*.deb debianutils*.deb'. Note that
> > lots of things might have explicit dependencies on the older version
> > of libc6, and other things might not have declared dependencies but
> > will break anyways with the newer libc; if you have the bandwidth and
> > don't mind some potential brokenness, it might be worth upgrading to
> > the frozen preparing-for-release "potato" distribution (if you're
> > using APT, change "stable" to "frozen" in /etc/apt/sources.list).
> >
> > --
> > David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/
> > "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
> > -- Abra Mitchell
> >
> >
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