Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was
> wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux
> distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning
> to customize and modify it, but haven't really yet... other than Windowmaker
> graphics and WDM graphics..
>
> Is it OK to carefully modify /var/lib/dpkg/status?
I've modified it once, don't remember exactly what, but it was a dependency
conflict that I had to solve.
> KDE stuff wouldn't go
> on because it wanted stdc++2.9, and it was too stupid to realize 2.10 was
> newer... I had to force each and every kde package... it worked too, but I
> gave up on keeping kde because every time I wanted to add new packages it
> wanted to kill kde.
Why don't you install libstdc++2.9? I have both 2.9 and 2.10 installed (with
KDE depending on 2.9) and have no dependency problem.
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