Re: make menuconfig
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:56:28PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote:
> For me it appears to originate in a version number conflict. I installed an
> out-of-stable package which up-versioned libncurses5-dev and also libc6; now
> the lower-versioned libncurses5-dev won't install because of the higher
> versioned libc6 which won't uninstall because of other aps that depend on it
> and won't downgrade because libdb1-compat (used for the out-of-stable
> package) depends on it. libdb1-compat will not uninstall because the
> higher-versioned libc6 depends on it.
Downgrade everything that depends on the newer libc6, except for
libdb1-compat. Downgrade libc6 to the version from stable, using dpkg
with the --force-overwrite and I think --force-depends-version flags.
Remove libdb1-compat.
(Downgrades aren't really supported, as you might gather ...)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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