Re: Fw: Simple way to downgrade libc6 (fix Konqueror, Mozilla and Galeon problems)

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:14:16PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> Here's what happens when I try that:
> 
> eeyore:/home/hall# apt-get install libc6=2.2.4-1
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> 
> <snipped list of (40) packages>

You might want to try 'apt-get install libc6=2.2.4-1 libc6-dev=2.2.4-1
locales=2.2.4-1' to downgrade the various other packages that come with
libc6.

> Also, if I did get this to work, what's the dpkg command that tells it
> *not* to upgrade libc6, that I want to keep this existing version ??

'echo libc6 hold | dpkg --set-selections'

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]