Re: libc6 problems
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:28:35PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> %% 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.
This is OK when you are tracing testing or unstable. (I know this works
and I do this when tracing testing selectively.)
But original poster is trying to upgrade from potato to woody.
Following release note are sensible thig to do.
Cheers :-)
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+ Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com> @ Cupertino, CA USA +
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