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Re: GLibc 2.2 on Alpha



On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:46:12PM +0200, Paul Bakker wrote:
> I have an alpha processor and distribution installed of debian 2.1.

You should really do a full upgrade through 2.2 to 3.0 - picking out
just glibc and upgrading that is possibly doable, but risky. I doubt
anyone has ever tested woody's glibc packages on slink.

> and replace the i386 in the filename with alpha.
> Only this is the first time there does not exist and alpha version of:
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-6_i386.deb

On 64-bit architectures (alpha and ia64), the C library is called
libc6.1, not libc6.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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