Re: Trying to upgrade libc6: aptitute wants to remove the kernel.
On Monday 23 January 2006 01:20, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> I've got a mixed stable/testing system which I've been trying to
>> upgrade
>> and dist-upgrade for a while. Whenever I try to `aptitude install
>> libc6` to testing or unstable, with various options, I get this
>> ominous warning:
>>
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>> base-config initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.23-1-386
>> kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k7 kernel-image-2.4.27-1-k7
>> kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7
...
> actually, now that I think about it, how can you NOT have libc6
> already?
I had libc6 stable, but it was holding back an increasing list of other
packages from being upgraded, and there was something very fishy about
the initrd-tools dependency. I tried
aptitude -t testing install libc6 initrd-tools
and
aptitude -t unstable install libc6 initrd-tools
but they refused to cooperate. (Sorry, I don't remember the exact error
messages.)
In the end I had to do this:
aptitude download initrd-tools/testing
dpkg -i initrd-tools_0.1.84_all.deb
aptitude -t unstable install libc6
aptitude upgrade
which worked.
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