Re: libc6 problems
%% Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com> writes:
oa> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:09:02PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
>> I fear I've done something very wrong here. I'm trying to stay up to date,
>> so I run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a regular basis.
>> This time I paid attention; quite a vew packages were held back, so I
>> tried to install them. I found that libc6 was old:
oa> Installmanual and my "Debian Reference" recommend to use "dselect
oa> for these occasion. Just trust us :-)
Whenever this happens I just use apt-get install directly:
$ apt-get install libc6 libc6-dev locales
Usually it will work on "held back" packages, depending on why it was
held back, and if it doesn't work at least it'll print a bit of info on
why.
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