Re: Difficulty with dpkg dependencies

[Dallas Clement <dallas.a.clement@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:55 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Dallas Clement wrote:
> > Package: libc6
> 
> libc6 is not the same as libc6-386
> 
> > dallas@debian:~/packages/glibc$ dpkg --info libc6-i386.deb
> >  Package: libc6
> 
> Same here.  libc6 is not the same as libc6-386
> 
> > dallas@debian:~/packages$ dpkg --info busybox_1.6.0-1_i386.deb
> >  Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.3.5-1)
> 
> The dependency is upon libc6-386 and you only have libc6 installed.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 

I had tried it as libc6-i386 earlier and got the same results.  With
that attempt, my /var/lib/dpkg/status contains:

Package: libc6-i386
Version: 2.3.6
Section: libs
Priority: required
Architecture: i386
Provides: glibc-2.3.6
Maintainer: Dallas Clement <dallas.clement@specktel.com>
Description: The GNU C library
 The GNU C library is the standard C/C++ library \
 needed to support most Linux applications.
Status: install ok installed

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The dpkg error when I try to install a package that depends on it is as
follows:

dpkg: package e2fsprogs depends on libc6-i386, which is not installed or
flagged to be installed

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I'm using the dpkg version 1.13.25 to build the packages on my Debian
Etch 4.0 system and I'm using the busybox 1.6.1 'dpkg' on my target
system to install the packages.