Re: Force dpkg to install newer package
Nopes, tried it already...
marcel@lemming:~# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3181kB of archives. After unpacking 561kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
tar: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by tar)
dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 1
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.1-3_i386.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.1-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
marcel@lemming:~#
It's kinda funny, it requires GLIBC_2.3 while I'm trying to get it back :)
With kind regards,
Marcel Lemmen
Support Net - Partner in Internetworking
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!>Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:37:27 +0200
!>From: Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>
!>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
!>Subject: Re: Force dpkg to install newer package
!>Resent-Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 05:37:36 -0600 (CST)
!>Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
!>
!>On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:19:58AM +0100, Marcel Lemmen wrote:
!>
!>> I found a problem with the unstable libc6 version and Mozilla (I'll
!>> send another e-mail when this has been solved...). Therefor I've
!>> downgraded libdb1-compat and libc6 and Mozilla worked fine
!>> again. Now other programs
!>> won't work anymore, I'll get the following message:
!>
!>Try using apt-get -f install
!>
!>Johann
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