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Re: Update Manager absurdity?



Default User wrote:
> I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD
> K6-2 processor.  Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22
> available updates.  Among them was libc6-amd64, which the description
> states is a 64-bit library "meant for AMD64 systems".  
> 
> WTF ?!?!
> 
> I have been trusting Update Manager to list only updates correct for my
> system, and although often not knowing whether particular updates were
> needed by my system, installed them all.  Now it appears that my trust
> was misplaced, to say the least.  

libc6-amd64 is part of the base system (for no particularly good reason
but all it uses is some disk space), so you probably already had it
installed.

-- 
see shy jo

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