Re: libc confilcts with apt-get install
At Thursday, 18 March 2004, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
>Harland Christofferson <debian-user@zerocrossings.com> writes:
>
>> what i ended up doing was:
>>
>> dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.5-11.
>> 5_i386.deb
>>
>> somehow, that _seems_ to have fixed it. i can run apt-get -f install
>> now and it does not complain (part of it's complaint was to remove
>> more than 400 packages ... do i really, really, really want to do
>> this?)
>
>OK, so you didn't provide complete output. Had I known about it
>complaining specifically about files that were also supplied by some
>other package, I would have suggested that.
>
>
my apologies ... apt-get -f install complained about +400 packages,
i figured, probably after the initial email, that there must be
a single package that was the root of all evil for me.
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