Re: easy libc6 2.2.4-2 fix

[Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com>]

Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
> This is by far the best way I have found of dealing with the 
> troublesome libc6 2.2.4-2 package.  Simply edit the file
> named '/etc/apt/preferences' and add lines like mine shown below.  
> Now everything should update easily and you can run galeon and 
> mozilla again.  Also, see man apt_preferences(5) for more info.
> 
> file:/etc/apt/preferences
>    Package: libc6
>    Pin: version 2.2.4-1
>    Pin-Priority: 1001
> 
>    Package: libc6-dev
>    Pin: version 2.2.4-1
>    Pin-Priority: 1001
> 
>    Package: locales
>    Pin: version 2.2.4-1
>    Pin-Priority: 1001

Nice, but I found it simpler just to run dselect and mark the libc6 and
locale packages with the "hold" flag after manually downgrading to 2.2.4-1.

Craig